lighthound wrote:
This new beast, at such an attractive price, is going to kill the 600 and 800 f/11 sales. Unless one is on a very small beginner budget, there really isn't any reason to buy either of those slow primes now.
I agree. The only advantage to the 800mm f11 over the new 200-800 I can see are weight (2.75 lbs VS: 4.5 LBS) and the 800 f11 has both a focus ring and a control ring, not combined. Since I use both those, that is something I have thought about. I own the 100-500 , the 800 f11 and a RF 1.4 extender. At this point in time I am not seeing a super advantage to also having the 200-800, but results in the field by early adopters might sway my opinion. My SO already said go for it, you are not getting any younger. Great to have hard decisions to make.
Here is the advantage, when your shooting a target, and it moves further away, and want/need to continue shooting the image you will not have the time to dismount the lens your using to put on the 800.
On the other hand same scenario using the 200-800, all it takes is to zoom out.
One of the videos on Utube showed it took 4 turns of the zoom to reach 800 from 200, but justified it by saying you wont normally be at 200 .. So thats a negative, 4 turns to zoom all the way out. or zoom in when target becomes closer.
The design would of been much better if it was an internal zoom, much less turns to zoom.
Dec 28, 2023 at 03:20 PM
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