Keith Reeder
Watch the birdie...
Steve, I think you're missing my point.
I've no doubt you've researched your dilemma to death before posting here, and that makes my point for me perfectly.
The problem with questions like this (not "with your question") is that for every positive opinion, there'll be a negative one; for every good, there'll be a bad.
It's an impossible question, Steve. If there was a single, end-of-story, "that's that, then" answer to any question like this, you'd already have found it.
As you say in your original post:
That's because there is no definitive answer, and no matter how many new ways we try to think of to ask the question (I've done it too), it's still ultimately the same question, and there's still no one right answer.
Going right back to 2007, things were exactly the same (posts 22 and 23 being particularly telling, I think), and nothing's changed since then that suddenly makes The Final Word On The Subject any more possible now than it was then.
So as I suggest above, identify the things you want most from a lens, and then find the lens which does those things best.
Oh - and Craig, who asked in 2007, chose the 100-400mm: I mention this because if you look at his gallery, he obviously didn't make a bad decision. No IQ issues there...
I've no doubt you've researched your dilemma to death before posting here, and that makes my point for me perfectly.
The problem with questions like this (not "with your question") is that for every positive opinion, there'll be a negative one; for every good, there'll be a bad.
It's an impossible question, Steve. If there was a single, end-of-story, "that's that, then" answer to any question like this, you'd already have found it.
As you say in your original post:
And didn't the previous threads do exactly the same thing?I have gone through old posts but I swing one way and then another
That's because there is no definitive answer, and no matter how many new ways we try to think of to ask the question (I've done it too), it's still ultimately the same question, and there's still no one right answer.
Going right back to 2007, things were exactly the same (posts 22 and 23 being particularly telling, I think), and nothing's changed since then that suddenly makes The Final Word On The Subject any more possible now than it was then.
So as I suggest above, identify the things you want most from a lens, and then find the lens which does those things best.
Oh - and Craig, who asked in 2007, chose the 100-400mm: I mention this because if you look at his gallery, he obviously didn't make a bad decision. No IQ issues there...
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