What is wrong with long lenses?
Jun 17, 2022 23:51:12 #
It seems like a lot of 150/200 -- 500/600 lenses are coming up for sale and even at very good prices they are not all selling. I sold one also, but this was due to having two with similar ranges. Is wildlife becoming a less popular subject or are they selling to buy mirrorless lenses rather than using the adaptor?
Jun 17, 2022 23:55:40 #
Maybe more older folks are switching to smaller and lighter MFT systems, plus the MILC thing.
Jun 18, 2022 01:27:02 #
All these people who are touting how great mirrorless is because of thirty seven different reasons; well they can have them. A couple of years ago I stumbled on a Nikon d850 with a 28-300 lens. Since I was doing mostly wild life I snapped it up. Later I found a 50 mm 1.4. It works great in low light portraits. A month ago at a camera club meeting a friend said he was going mirrorless and wanted to get rid of his 500 F/5. The deal he gave me I would've been a fool to pass up. Before I bought it my everyday lens was the 20-300, Now it's the 500. I've used a tripod for a couple of years because I shake a little, enough to really screw up a photo. I have no problem with the weight and my photos have improved. I will be keeping my rickety old 850 and all the rest. I'm on the watch for a 600 then I will sell the 500. I guess I'm like everyone else, never satisfied always looking for something better
Jun 18, 2022 01:50:46 #
Hard to say. When money is tight, people tend to sell the lenses they use less frequently, and are less likely to buy lenses they don't expect to use often.
Jun 18, 2022 04:43:30 #
Bridges wrote:
It seems like a lot of 150/200 -- 500/600 lenses are coming up for sale and even at very good prices they are not all selling. I sold one also, but this was due to having two with similar ranges. Is wildlife becoming a less popular subject or are they selling to buy mirrorless lenses rather than using the adaptor?
I bought one a few months ago, 150-600mm Sigma Sports.
I cant speak for others but before I bought it, I knew it would be used sparingly in my kind of leisure shooting.
Maybe that is a reason some of them are selling theirs away, they do not use them as much.
I bought mine because it fills a gap my other lenses could not. Maybe that's another reason they let go of theirs.
Probably they have other lenses or systems that can do the same job.
The biggest issue with very long lenses is they are BIG, in just about every way.
They take a lot of space, they are heavy and really makes the user pop out from the crowd. If one can not live with that, its not for them.
Jun 18, 2022 05:41:58 #
Interesting observation. I haven’t used my 200-500 at all since I acquired my 500 PF. Maybe folks are realizing that big zooms are still compromised designs compared to primes? Or, maybe just just a random quirk in the market that will dissipate in time.
Jun 18, 2022 06:17:34 #
I suspect the shift to mirrorless with smaller, lighter long lenses.
Jun 18, 2022 06:53:45 #
Bridges wrote:
It seems like a lot of 150/200 -- 500/600 lenses are coming up for sale and even at very good prices they are not all selling. I sold one also, but this was due to having two with similar ranges. Is wildlife becoming a less popular subject or are they selling to buy mirrorless lenses rather than using the adaptor?
Good mirrorless fulfilling the promise of smaller and lighter for once.
Get a 600mm or a 800mm in the 1K range that you can carry all day with virtually no effort or an excellent, sharp and incredibly light and small 100-400mm new for about 600.
Makes the FF DSLR systems look like an anachronism from the past
Even the 70-200mm f2.8 is now a fraction of the size of the dinosaurs.
That is a possibe reason.
Jun 18, 2022 07:50:05 #
My guess is as more mirrorless lenses become available, people are purchasing them. Over the years I have moved completely to mirrorless lenses for my Z6II and my Z50.
Jun 18, 2022 08:27:09 #
Bridges wrote:
It seems like a lot of 150/200 -- 500/600 lenses are coming up for sale and even at very good prices they are not all selling. I sold one also, but this was due to having two with similar ranges. Is wildlife becoming a less popular subject or are they selling to buy mirrorless lenses rather than using the adaptor?
The price? The lack of a "need" for a lens like that? My 28-300mm is fine for me, and I have a 1.4 extended, if necessary.
Jun 18, 2022 08:34:09 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
Bridges wrote:
It seems like a lot of 150/200 -- 500/600 lenses are coming up for sale and even at very good prices they are not all selling. I sold one also, but this was due to having two with similar ranges. Is wildlife becoming a less popular subject or are they selling to buy mirrorless lenses rather than using the adaptor?
Probably a number of legitimate reasons. I can easily speak on this because I have more big lenses than I need, for several different systems/mounts, and I realized some time ago that I'm a technogadget junkie/collector!! I also think many try to get into wildlife photography and then find that (1) you can never have enough reach. (2) it is often a lot harder and more involved then it looks (3) passing fad or fancy (4) no longer interested (5) moving on to the next thing that catches their eye (6) Just because they can (7) Sometimes a Blind or your feet work as well (8) Adapters of all sorts, they work, but they are in general a PITA for any number of reasons. (9) Your reason here.
Although more invested in DSLR, I do have Sony and Nikon MILC gear....I have found I get pretty much equal (in every way/within reason) photos from every camera I have if I apply myself/50 yrs. of exp.
My$.02
Jun 18, 2022 08:49:53 #
rook2c4 wrote:
Hard to say. When money is tight, people tend to sell the lenses they use less frequently, and are less likely to buy lenses they don't expect to use often.
True that! And I guarantee you the market is going to be hit with a slug of used lenses for cheap next year as the market and economy slides off into the ocean.
Jun 18, 2022 09:07:28 #
Real Nikon Lover wrote:
True that! And I guarantee you the market is going to be hit with a slug of used lenses for cheap next year as the market and economy slides off into the ocean.
Also, stuff people bought during Covid lockdown and now find just sitting, an observation my father made about snow blowers a few years after a rare big snow.
Jun 18, 2022 09:11:38 #
dbrugger25
Loc: Raleigh, NC
I think many people will be selling their expensive posessions because they need money to cope with the much higher cost of living. These are sad times but things are far worse elsewhere in the World.
Jun 18, 2022 09:21:42 #
Real Nikon Lover wrote:
True that! And I guarantee you the market is going to be hit with a slug of used lenses for cheap next year as the market and economy slides off into the ocean.
People have been claiming such guarantees for decades. We'll see.
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