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<\/a><\/p>\nI was reminded of that again on our hike int ‘ T Roegwold last weekend and decided to do something about it there and then and ordered the 70-300mm. I’ve been looking into three lens-options: the 55-200, the 70-300 and the 100-400. The first one I scratched off immediately as 200 is of course. much more than 90mm, it’s not a huge improvement given the other options and it’s the older and lowest in quality of the three options if I’m not mistaken.<\/p>\n
So then it was between 70-300 and 100-400. The reasons for choosing the 70-300mm were in the first place that it’s much smaller and lighter, less then half the weight of the 100-400mm. And secondly the price, also half of the 100-400mm. From what I’d seen in reviews and in images on the Flickr website made with the 70-300mm I had no concerns about the quality. The smaller size and the light weight make it ideal to take along on a hike as the heavy 100-400mm would be more a a purpose only lens.<\/p>\n The lens arrived yesterday and after work I immediately took it out on walk with me to get some test-photos in for myself. Also good to get a bit of exercise going \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n What I love about the lens is its ability to focus at a minimum distance of about 83cm, which at 300mm zoom makes it almost like a macro lens. Very much like my 16mm wide-angle that focusses from 15cm. Two lenses that in theory have nothing to do with Marco-photography and still you can get really good results.<\/p>\n In the hike yesterday I got some great results to give me an initial idea of the capabilities and I hope to soon make better use of the lens. I was able to try mu luck at a heron in flight (better luck next time), some sunflowers, butterflies, a bee and some sparrows. At 300mm I do feel I have a good bit of reach and if it really comes down to getting more, I can always add a tele-converter to increase it a bit more. For now I’m really quite fine though.<\/p>\n I really enjoy going out with the camera again and last year after I got myself the Fujifilm X-T4 camera I also switched up my lenses a bit. But I found that I was still missing a good bit of reach (I sold a 18-135, but that wasn’t really that was also already missing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,6],"tags":[77,62,63,11,13,72,71,70,73,76,10,78,79,74,75],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","tag-assen","tag-bee","tag-bees","tag-drenthe","tag-fujifilm","tag-fujifilm-x-t4","tag-fujinon","tag-fujinon-fx-70-300","tag-hike","tag-lens-test","tag-nature","tag-sunflower","tag-sunflowers","tag-walking","tag-wanderlust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guchiviews.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"DSCF6306\"](\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54704510623_8f18e5ee8d.jpg\")
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