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With modern DSLRs with dramaticly improved ISO at higher settings the need to have an f4 large 500mm lens is no longer needed, when as a 77 yr old, I try to reduce what I carry when out on a walk in a bird reserve.
My big 500mm f4 comes out when I spend the day in a fixed location like a hide or can work from my car.There is no doubt that the image quality at wider f nos is better with the big lens. Stop down the 400-80mm a bit more and it also is pin sharp.
Than goodness long gone are the days of a Hasselblad and a 500mm f8 lens and 50 ISO transp film. Working like this in Africa in the 1970s bird photography was not easy. Here photographing white rhinos in Rhodesia with a Linhof 6x7 1970!!
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Graham Whistler