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500mm vs 600mm?

Started Nov 13, 2017 | Questions thread
OP jjl Contributing Member • Posts: 743
Re: I'll complicate the matter a little...
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Thanks for the replies & info. I hadn't heard about the 600 DO rumors... Hmm... It'd be typical timing for me to get the 600 and then the DO comes out a few weeks later. I've been through that kind of thing before, and it sucks.

Currently, I'm a bit torn - I was leaning to the 600, but reading many of the comments here give me a bit of second thoughts. I will still have the 400 DO for mobility, so the 600 would be adding to that. On the other hand... it'd be nice to just have one big workhorse lens, and the 500 might fit that bill better.

I think I might do a couple rentals to really get the feel for the existing 500 and 600. Some things you just can't learn from a spec sheet. I'm also checking to see if there's one of those canon rep days at a birding festival this spring... might be something worth looking into. Perhaps that'll delay my decision long enough for Canon to cough-up the 600 DO!

I kind of went away from this thread for a bit, and just coming back... so I'll just leave this as a thanks to everyone else who replied as well. Lots of great gallery links too!

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