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Canon 200-800mm vs. the Field: What Tony & Chelsea's Wildlife Lens Shootout Actually Proves
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Canon 200-800mm vs. the Field: What Tony & Chelsea's Wildlife Lens Shootout Actually Proves

I’ve been down the wildlife lens rabbit hole more times than I care to admit. Every time I think I’ve landed on the right setup, something new drops and the math changes. The tension I keep running into is this: do you buy a dedicated super-telephoto zoom and be done with it, or do you stack a solid mid-range zoom with a teleconverter and call it good? That question has a real cost attached to it, and for Canon shooters especially, it’s been frustratingly hard to answer because the options until recently were either too short or too expensive.

Canon RF 100-500mm Review: Is a $2,900 Super Zoom Actually Worth It for Working Photographers?
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Canon RF 100-500mm Review: Is a $2,900 Super Zoom Actually Worth It for Working Photographers?

Every few months I get an email asking me some version of the same question: “Tyler, should I just save up and buy the expensive lens?” My honest answer is usually no. But occasionally a piece of gear comes along that makes me actually stop and think through the math. Canon’s RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM is one of those lenses. At $2,899, it sits in that painful middle zone where it’s too expensive to dismiss as a lifestyle purchase and too specialized to recommend broadly.