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Yaryman wrote:
Question, does anybody buy this lens for it's performance at 150mm?
I've seen FM members post images with this lens showing the photo details and over 95% of those photos were taken at 400mm or longer with most of the images taken at 600mm.
Maybe. For large animals, the ability to zoom throughout the range is very useful and very important. I didn’t buy a prime; I bought a zoom partially for that reason. Since birds are available everywhere, we see far more bird photos than other wildlife and those are taken almost exclusively at the long end. Even I shoot birds when there is nothing else to do, but my walls at home are covered with large animals.
I think we don’t see many discussions about the performance at the wide end because many photographers here are interested in birds. Even us large animal photographers tend to be more concerned about the performance at the long end simply because that is the reason for buying a lens of this physical size (e.g. we could buy a much smaller 100-400 if we didn’t think we would routinely need 600). I think we also probably assume that the performance at the long end will be the worst point, even though that may not always be true.
So while the performance at the 150 end was not my first thought when considering this lens, the ability to use it all the way from 150-600 was something I wanted and assumed. Now having seen how this lens performs at the short end, I am thrilled to have prime-like performance from 150-300. That will be useful. I don’t think the performance at the long end is as stellar, but I think the results all the way to 600 will prove more than adequate for my purposes.
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