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molson wrote:
I'm not crazy about the f/8 aperture, but compared to the Canon 100-500mm f7.1, the Fuji seems like a real bargain.
It appears to have a "Set" button, so hopefully one can pre-set a focus distance for quick recall, something none of the other lenses in this price range have.
I'm more or less with you here. I'm betting that at 500mm the Fujifilm gives you something closer to the f/7.1 of the Canon, where it is giving an angle-of-view equivalent of 750mm on the Fujifilm (1.5x crop factor) and 800mm on a Canon 1.6x APS-C camera. (The Canon also is 32.6 MP versus the Fujifilm 26MP, with the additional imponderables that this difference introduces.)
That's really, really close.
And the Fujifilm lens goes to 600mm, producing an angle-of-view equivalent of 900mm (!), which still provides a bit more reach than the Canon.
As a person using Canon FF gear for the other half of his photography, if I were looking for a pure APS-C system optimized fo the smaller format, Fujifilm still offers some other compelling pluses that get my attention — including a full line-up of diverse lens options tailored for the smaller sensor.
(Having said that, a counter-argument would be that if you include all of the designed-for-full-frame Canon lenses that also work on their APS-C cameras, there are even more options. The counter-counter argument says that one probably doesn't need all of those other options except in very rare cases, and that the wide range of available APS-C lenses from Fujiflm is likely to be more than enough...)
Dan
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