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Safari Decision... leave the Oly 40-150 Pro behind?

Started Nov 13, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Re: Safari Decision... leave the Oly 40-150 Pro behind?
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IMO it’s a tough decision?

My wife and I went to South Africa last year with 3 cameras ( FF, APS-C and MFT) and the most used focal length was 70-200mm on the FF camera.

I used the 100-400mm on the APS-C mainly for birds and small animals, and it was great for doing portraits of the big animals and cats, but for any of the big animals up close - elephant, rhino , giraffe, buffalo I found the 100-400mm on the APS-C camera was too long.

I had a Metabones adapter as well and never felt the need to put the 100-400mm on the MFT camera. It was good to have the Metabones as a backup, but it never got used. We used a 12-60mm on the MFT for video and for landscapes, and for wide herd shots.

Your choice needs to be made with some idea as to what animals you will see and how close you will get to them.

In the private game reserves where we went, if I only had MFT to use (choose) the 40-150mm Pro would be on the top of my list giving me 80-300mm FF [edit: covering the focal length range we had with the] actual 70-200mm we used with our Canon FF..

Peter

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