{"id":2053,"date":"2008-08-05T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2008-08-05T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T07:31:49","slug":"new-tele-zooms-in-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/05\/new-tele-zooms-in-view\/","title":{"rendered":"New tele-zoom are in view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amateurs of sports photography and wildlife photography are generally well aware that the Holy Grail of lenses seems to be a (relatively) light tele-zoom lens of 100-400mm range and an aperture under f\/5.6. This set of features allows a lot of versatility (tele range with the ability to quickly and easily change the frame) and a good behaviour in terms of AF (most modern AF behave correctly up to f\/5.6 but no further than this).<\/p>\n<p>This is the reason why the Canon 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6 L IS UM and Nikon AF 80-400mm VR f\/4.5-5.6 D ED has been so successful despite their obviously high prices (around $2000). When I&#8217;m on photo safari, I&#8217;d say that about half the people around me have one of the Canons as their main lens (somtimes, it&#8217;s even their only lens).<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, Sigma added its own version of this lens (see <a href=\"\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/02\/comparison-of-high-end-tele-zoom-lenses\/\">this high-end zoom lens comparison<\/a>). And it was a winner in terms of price-performance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we can expect several significant news in this range of products coming from different manufacturers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony presented about a year ago a mockup of a zoom lens corresponding well to this range. The word is out that it will be a 70-400mm f\/5.6 zoom presented to the European press on August 14th (for an official launch in the beginning of September, probably at the same time Sony launches the Sony Alpha 800 and\/or Sony Alpha 900 Full Frame camera(s)).<\/li>\n<li>According to some rumors (mainly originating from an unsubstantiated initial post at NikonRumours), there will soon be a Nikon AF80-400mm f\/4.5-5.6D ED VR update. And this should be explaining the reduced availability of the original version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would even be tempted to <em>read between the lines<\/em> of a recent test article of Chasseur d&#8217;Image and say that Canon will also be hard pressed to provide an update to its aging 100-400mm. After all, it&#8217;s a real <em>cash cow<\/em> and a sure sale for owners of top- and mid-range cameras like the Canon EOS 40D (and possibly its successor EOS 50D &#8211; next year?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amateurs of sports photography and wildlife photography are generally well aware that the Holy Grail of lenses seems to be a (relatively) light tele-zoom lens of 100-400mm range and an aperture under f\/5.6. This set of features allows a lot of versatility (tele range with the ability to quickly and easily change the frame) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,962,945,982,972,19,96,901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-eos-40d","category-canon-eos-50d","category-nikon-d700","category-nikon-d800","category-nikon-d900","category-photo-safari","category-sigma","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}