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Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - pRICE cUBE - 02-14-2021
The Nikon 200-500 5.6 is a nice lens, the Tamron 160-600mm has been been a good lens.
What attracts me to this lens you ask? Despite costing $1800 (competitors are $1200-1400) is the fact that the lens is an internal zoom. This means the length of the lens never changes unlike the Nikon or Tamron. There is not as much of a weight shift when the front element extends forward. "OK pRICE cUBE, you can't handle a little weight shift to take an itty bitty picture?" Sure, I can, but over the course of an entire soccer game, this can get affect framing and get really annoying. Now I question whether I want to buy this lens and Sony body. Just a fun lens crush for now.
Nikon 200-500 at the 200mm setting
Nikon 200-500 at the 500mm setting
More big zooms lenses that extend.
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - NewtonMP2100 - 02-14-2021
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - Buzz - 02-14-2021
Regular Crush... Super Crush ! ! !
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Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - vision63 - 02-14-2021
If you get a Sony body, then the choice is made. On the Nikon platform, I'd stick with the Tamron G2 action since it's easy to update the firmware and adjust it. The Sony lens would get the nod for the reasons you mention out of all three of them.
A Nikon NIKKOR Z 200-600mm Zoom Lens is on the roadmap. When it drops, it'll kick all of their butts. However, it'll cost a fortune.
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - mrbigstuff - 02-14-2021
This reminds me that I was going to look into a 2x converter for my 300mm and 80-200mm f-mount.
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - pRICE cUBE - 02-14-2021
vision63 wrote:
If you get a Sony body, then the choice is made. On the Nikon platform, I'd stick with the Tamron G2 action since it's easy to update the firmware and adjust it. The Sony lens would get the nod for the reasons you mention out of all three of them.
A Nikon NIKKOR Z 200-600mm Zoom Lens is on the roadmap. When it drops, it'll kick all of their butts. However, it'll cost a fortune.
This doesn't definitively mean a divorce, just a thing on the side. :jest:
Nikon and Sony zoom the same direction. If this were a Canon lens, it would be a no go.
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - AllGold - 02-15-2021
A Nikon 200-400/4 is about the same price used as the Sony. Obviously, it stops at 400 but at f/4, it's more useful in available darkness.
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - pRICE cUBE - 02-15-2021
AllGold wrote:
A Nikon 200-400/4 is about the same price used as the Sony. Obviously, it stops at 400 but at f/4, it's more useful in available darkness.
Yes, the 200-400 is interesting. I feel like daytime soccer and lacrosse is best covered by the 200-600mm range. I used the 1.4x teleconverter with the 200-400 and it slow down the AF speed. I have no idea how it compares to the Sony 200-600 focus speed.
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - macphanatic - 02-15-2021
While the Sony 200-600 isn't a f/4 lens, the ISO capabilities of the Sony may negate some of the need for the lens to be faster.
Re: Seem to have a crush on this Sony 200-600mm zoom lens - Gareth - 02-15-2021
The downside of the internal zoom, is that the 200-600mm is gigantic, which is mildly annoying for me as I try to fit it into a backpack for hiking. It also supposedly has an AF bug with certain bodies, sometimes... Thankfully, I haven't experienced that so I haven't read up on it too much, but I also haven't had as much opportunity to get out and use the lens this past year.