07-09-2020, 07:40 AM
(07-07-2020, 08:37 PM)Brightcolours Wrote: [quote='Klaus' pid='51587' dateline='1594153347']
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4-7.1L IS USM £2,899
Are they nuts? Compare this to the price of the Sony 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS ... 1699 GBP ...
£1,800, actually.
Can be found at under €1,700 ......
F7.1 ???? ..... is this some kind of slow insidious decline in aperture size from Canon that is there to soft sell us with time?? ...... or is there someone at Canon who thinks that wide angle to normal FL lenses ideally need to be F1.2 (and $3,000) in order to keep shutter speeds at around 1/4000 sec for landscape work ?? ......
....... while BIF images are best taken at small apertures in order to be able to blur the action to portray artistic movement ?? ...... which is what you'll get from slower shutter speeds
...... Nikon didn't want to drop below F5.6 ....... with a FL from 200-500mm ..... and kept the price down to $1,400 ....... (now btw way you can buy it for €1,035 )
If you want 600mm the Sony gets the cigar here at F6.3
Sony and Nikon are the clear winners here !!