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A Remarkable Long Lens

Started Nov 3, 2021 | User reviews thread
Karl_Guttag Senior Member • Posts: 1,883
Re: Yes, but the lack of range with the TC is a big drawback to me

ProDude wrote:

Karl_Guttag wrote:

I was out taking pictures at an airshow last weekend, the R5 and RF100-500. The inability to zoom out to less than 420mm with the 1.4x TC made the TC worthless (I ended up taking it off and putting it away).

A 140mm to 720mm would have been great for things like take-off runs of planes. At 140mm, I could have just gotten the whole plane framed with a little room to spare at its nearest point on the runways. I wanted the 720mm for when the plane was at the end of the runway or when flying. When the planes are flying, 420mm is too long on their nearest approach.

It's a good thing with the luxury of the resolution cropping or running the R5 on crop mode isn't much of a sacrifice.

That is one way to put it, but it still is a significant disadvantage compared to other lenses.

I wouldn't have bought the 1.4x converter to give me effectively 2X the pixels (1.4 squared) where I want them.

The Sony 200-600 is a little too long at the short end based on my recent experience and would have been problematic as well.  I really wanted a 140 to 720mm zoom lens for the air show. I had a second body with the RP that I put a 24-240 lens on for pictures of more stationary things.  I went to the show for three days, and by the 3rd day, I only brought the 100-500 on the R5 and 24-240 on the RP.

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Canon EOS R5 Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8L IS USM Canon RF 24-70mm F2.8L IS USM Canon RF 70-200mm F2.8L IS USM Canon RF 24-240mm F4-6.3 +14 more
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