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100-400mm for Travel Photography

Started Dec 13, 2017 | Questions thread
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Re: 100-400mm for Travel Photography
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Rexgig0 wrote:

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.

i visited san diego a few months ago and took both, my 24-70 f2.8 II and 100-400 II. i had my 24-70 on my camera the whole time, never touched my long 100-400! there might be a rare possibility to use a long tele lens once in a blue moon when traveling in a city but not much, in my experience!

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