Lenses

[Waddizzle]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

If I had a 7D Mk II there is no way on this Earth I would take an 80D over it.  Keep your 7D's!

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No one is knocking the 7D Mark II.  But, the 7D Mak II does not fair well when tasked with focusing at f/8.

The above shot was with the 7D2, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM + 1.4x III.  I think it is a bit soft.  It was one of the few "sharp" photos I captured of this bird.

[mjschocken]

I'm renting a Tamron SP 150 - 600 mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 lens at your suggestion.   While jury's still out, I do like it.  It doesn't weigh a lot more than my Canon 100 - 400 mm II (4.4 lbs to 3.6 lbs).  I attach a northern harrier and osprey in flight.  The harrier was in very low light so it's pretty grainy.  The osprey was pretty far away so I had to crop a lot and the cropped image still looks pretty good to me.  Well, I'll be using it a couple of more times before I decide on it.  Just wanted to say thanks for bringing it to my attention. 

Mark

[ebiggs1]

"I'm renting a Tamron SP 150 - 600 mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 lens at your suggestion."

Not at my suggestion.  I prefer buying the lens when it is one of these relatively cheap lenses.  Why, because the rental could have been applied toward purchase. Now it is just a receipt.  But I want to know if I want one!  Yeah, I get it, but if you keep everything in perfect condition and all the paper work and box, etc, you can sell it on if it isn't a keeper.  Plus this way the 'trial' period can be somewhat longer than the normally week rental.  Rent for longer than a week and my way really makes more sense. I have kept some lenses for months, impossible to rent reasonably. It is easy to get 75% to 80% re-sale back.  I do it all the time for the last 16 years. So many I have lost count.

The only lens I ever rented is the truly high dollar ones I can't afford.

The  Tamron SP 150 - 600 mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 is the best of the crop right now.  Probably because it is the newest.  It has the dock and fairly well built.  I really wish Canon would do one.

About the weight, you have these noobs that complain about the weight and then you find out they are using a lens nearly or just as heavy. It is what it is or get out of the game.

[RexGig]

My wife and I use a Sigma 150-600mm Sport, though she uses only Nikon cameras, so our big Sigma Sport is Nikon mount. (I have both Canon and Nikon cameras, the latter to enable our sharing Nikon-mount lenses.)

It is not only that the Sigma 150-600mm Sport is heavy, at about 2900 grams, but that its point of balance is so far forward. The newer 60-600mm Sport weighs just a bit less, at 2700 grams, but has a more-user-friendly balance point. I am considering adding a 60-600 Sigma Sport, in Canon mount, after having handled one at a local demo day.

I believe that I would rather use a 60-600mm Sport, than add my Extender 1.4x III to my EF 100-400L II IS. I love my EF 100-400L II IS, but believe that my Extender is a better partner for my EF 300/2.8L IS.

[ebiggs1]

The reason you see a less than ideal balance point on the big Siggy Sport is, you are using a 7D.  If you had a 1 series the balance is nearly perfect.  It might be the fact the Sport is a pro level lens and the 7 series are semi-pro models which are not a heavily built. Just a thought.