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Recommendation for a good lens for 2017 Eclipse
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<blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 631945" data-attributes="member: 43545"><p>Any decent 300mm lens is probably higher in resolving power than that thermals in the atmosphere permits, so a slow zoom is probably fine as long as the tripod is steady, the lens will not be the limiting factor. Not enough information to judge why or if his current gear needs a new lens added. With the ND filter he was planning on, speed of the lens become a non-issue and in fact slower lenses at f/8-10 are not much different than higher end fast exotics at the same aperture. A low cost zoom is easier to travel with also. </p><p>I have no long lenses past 200 mm be even there, when stopped down to f/8, my 2.8 lens is really no better than a cheap plastic zoom at f/8...small apertures cure a lot of ills. You invest in quality glass for their wide open performance which varies greatly from slow zooms</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spb_stan, post: 631945, member: 43545"] Any decent 300mm lens is probably higher in resolving power than that thermals in the atmosphere permits, so a slow zoom is probably fine as long as the tripod is steady, the lens will not be the limiting factor. Not enough information to judge why or if his current gear needs a new lens added. With the ND filter he was planning on, speed of the lens become a non-issue and in fact slower lenses at f/8-10 are not much different than higher end fast exotics at the same aperture. A low cost zoom is easier to travel with also. I have no long lenses past 200 mm be even there, when stopped down to f/8, my 2.8 lens is really no better than a cheap plastic zoom at f/8...small apertures cure a lot of ills. You invest in quality glass for their wide open performance which varies greatly from slow zooms [/QUOTE]
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