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100-400mm for Travel Photography

Started Dec 13, 2017 | Questions thread
mikebinok
mikebinok Regular Member • Posts: 466
Re: 100-400mm for Travel Photography

I love the 100-400 for wildlife, and just replaced my battered fifteen year old copy with the Mark II version, but I don’t think of it for regular travel, I think of it as a wildlife and nature lens. When I visited Vietnam and Cambodia five years ago, I didn’t take it, but I did use a digicam with 300mm or so of reach for photos of other vessels and details of the shore while on a Mekong River cruise. The 100-400 on a DSLR would be even better of course. But it would be a bulky and heavy burden to carry around in SE Asia, and even during the travel to get there.

It is differences of opinion that make photography interesting of course, but if I wanted more telephoto for travel than a standard zoom gives, I’d probably buy a 70-200/4 with IS.

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