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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pierro" data-source="post: 85756" data-attributes="member: 8517"><p>Small birds and 300mm dont work well together, although it can be done, its not ideal as its very difficult to get close enough to small birds to make them big enough in the viewfinder. 300mm will be fine for almost everything else... large birds, animals etc. You will find that all your choices you mention will be best for good light due to their slow apertures which start at f6.3 ...even then, those 500 zooms prefer to be at f8 for best IQ.  The 300mm gets you faster shutter speeds being f4, but the quality of the Nik 300 f4 will mean you cant shoot at f4 and not have to stop down.  It depends on what you value most</p></blockquote><p></p>