Canon's approach reminds me of those ads in the back of old photo magazines advertising cheap, pre-set long telephoto lenses. Old-timers may remember.
Spiratone brand, back page of every photo magazine.
Showing my age .
Canon's approach reminds me of those ads in the back of old photo magazines advertising cheap, pre-set long telephoto lenses. Old-timers may remember.
Yeah, good tip. Another issue with these long primes is if a subject comes closer. With a zoom it is no problem. With a prime you need to move, or have another camera with another lens, or change the lens. So both things considered I think they are not very comparable.
Compact... Now let's be honest, that word is misused when describing these lenses. Just look at them when they're ready to shoot. (Note: I'm not "targeting" you for the use of the word but just used it as an example. Everyone seems to think/say they're compact. - No, no they're not.)I wonder how the performance compares to the 100-300. One thing is for sure. While certainly compact it is still about double the size of the 100-300.
Spiratone brand, back page of every photo magazine.
Showing my age .
Okay, well I wasn't talking about M43 at all in this case, just the new Canon lenses either on R5 or R6, meaning 45MP vs 20MP. And I think these budget lenses won't do justice to the 45MP sensor.
Even Lenstip tests the FF lenses for big MP and APS-C cameras for resolution on the edges, and many times the edges are not good enough for big MP cameras, unless the lens is top notch and expensive.
More on this. It seems Nikon released a similar design 500mm f/5.6 PF (similar as Canon's DO) lens in Fall 2018. It cost something like 3600 $. Got Editor's Choice at Lenstip, although a con was bad performance against bright light, which is odd for such an expensive lens, can it be because of the design or why is it?
https://www.lenstip.com/540.4-Lens_..._500_mm_f_5.6E_PF_ED_VR_Image_resolution.html
It's amusing that I thought it was unlikely that "FF and slow" would become a real thing and yet here it is.
I'm a little surprised about all of the doom and gloom about the long lenses here. I shoot the 100-400 @f/6.3 all the time. The light gathered by these full frame lenses is actually a little better than that. Fixed aperture and fixed focal length should be relatively easy to make sharp. They might be perfect lenses for someone to do some backyard birding. So you have to shoot higher isos to get the SS up, no biggie, the bigger sensor offsets that with respect to noise. At 800mm you'll still get subject isolation. I'm not in the market for these lenses, but if I were a Canon shooter, I'd give them a closer look.