09-16-2010, 08:16 PM
[quote name='Reinier' timestamp='1284667557' post='2859']
Hello Guys,
Thanks for the replies and advise. I thought your comments over for a week, but I am not convinced about the Canon 100-400. It is way over my budget and I have used it some time ago, but I wasn't to keen about the push/pull zoom, to be honest. It becomes a large piece of equipment when zooming towards 400mm. It has IS, but it is too big and too heavy for me to hand hold it <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> . I need a tripod for such large lenses, so why buy a lens with IS whilst using it on tripod only.
Are there any cheaper options from Sigma, because the Canon 400/5.6 or 300/4.0 are very hard to come by second hand in the Netherlands. And if you find one, then the 400/5.6 is almost priced as a new lens, just like the 100-400 by the way.
Hope to hear from you.
Best wishes,
Reinier
[/quote]
Like I mentioned before, the only 2 lenses that fit the bill are the Sigma 120-400mm OS and 150-500mm OS. And of course the older 80-400mm OS.
Any second hand lens is hard to get in the Netherlands.... so it makes little sense to advice on gems from the past, like a Sigma 400mm f5.6.
The best prime still is the Canon 400mm f5.6 L USM, but cheapest I can locate it is 1096 euros. And that is from an online electronics store (simplyelectronics).
Hello Guys,
Thanks for the replies and advise. I thought your comments over for a week, but I am not convinced about the Canon 100-400. It is way over my budget and I have used it some time ago, but I wasn't to keen about the push/pull zoom, to be honest. It becomes a large piece of equipment when zooming towards 400mm. It has IS, but it is too big and too heavy for me to hand hold it <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> . I need a tripod for such large lenses, so why buy a lens with IS whilst using it on tripod only. Are there any cheaper options from Sigma, because the Canon 400/5.6 or 300/4.0 are very hard to come by second hand in the Netherlands. And if you find one, then the 400/5.6 is almost priced as a new lens, just like the 100-400 by the way.
Hope to hear from you.
Best wishes,
Reinier
[/quote]
Like I mentioned before, the only 2 lenses that fit the bill are the Sigma 120-400mm OS and 150-500mm OS. And of course the older 80-400mm OS.
Any second hand lens is hard to get in the Netherlands.... so it makes little sense to advice on gems from the past, like a Sigma 400mm f5.6.
The best prime still is the Canon 400mm f5.6 L USM, but cheapest I can locate it is 1096 euros. And that is from an online electronics store (simplyelectronics).