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100-400mm for Travel Photography

Started Dec 13, 2017 | Questions thread
Rexgig0
Rexgig0 Veteran Member • Posts: 7,399
Re: 100-400mm for Travel Photography

Experiment: Try walking with your 100-400mm lens in the nearest large local city, to visit temples, churches, museums, and such. A large city is a large city, whether local or on another continent. The significant differences, regarding carrying much weight, would be elevation and slopes.

One DPR member, who posts in the Nikon section, uses a 80-400G, which is comparable to your 100-400L, a 16-35G, which is comparable to your 17-40L, and, if I recall correctly, a serious mid-range zoom, which is considerably larger and heavier than your 50mm, for quite serious travel, which includes cruises, with much walking, for hours, in cities at ports of call.

I have yet to travel with my EF 100-400L II IS, and until an upper left arm injury heals, will not use any large lens very much, so cannot yet run this experiment for myself.

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