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Rumors Panasonic 100-500mm f5-7.1 announcement soon

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Quentinquirelino

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Great news! Certainly fills a gap in terms of L mount lens offerings for (long) telephoto zoom lenses. We have Sigma's 150-600 and 60-600s of course but I personally would be more tempted by a 100-500 zoom. More versatile.

It still seems a little bit on the heavy side - I assume we'll get dual IS?
 
Interesting choice to slot it between the Sigma 100-400 & 150-600. I have mixed feelings. I really want all my zoom rings to twist the same way, and the two aforementioned Sigmas are my last hold out (I really only use the 150-600 anymore). But that last 100mm on the 150-600 is quite important for wildlife. F7.1 is also a touch slow on the long end - which means you will be deeper into diffraction territory with the high-res bodies when using the 1.4x TC - but as long as the lens has good details and contrast wide-open at 500mm, it’s probably not an issue. Hopefully the AF speed is on par with, or faster than, the Sigma 500 or 60-600. Which would make it faster than the 150-600. We shall see.
 
Nice. I have no interest in these super-long lenses, but it's good for the system to have options for wildlife/sports shooters.
 
GeorgeHudetz said:
Interesting choice to slot it between the Sigma 100-400 & 150-600. I have mixed feelings. I really want all my zoom rings to twist the same way, and the two aforementioned Sigmas are my last hold out (I really only use the 150-600 anymore). But that last 100mm on the 150-600 is quite important for wildlife. F7.1 is also a touch slow on the long end - which means you will be deeper into diffraction territory with the high-res bodies when using the 1.4x TC - but as long as the lens has good details and contrast wide-open at 500mm, it’s probably not an issue. Hopefully the AF speed is on par with, or faster than, the Sigma 500 or 60-600. Which would make it faster than the 150-600. We shall see.
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If AF and IQ are good AND it's light, this might be the lens that would make me retire the M43 combo. The S1Rii is basically the same body as the G9ii but the Sigma 150-600 is twice as heavy as the PL100-400. If 1.3 kg (vs 2kg Sigma) is true, I will be very very tempted.
 
Jan.Wedekind said:
If AF and IQ are good AND it's light, this might be the lens that would make me retire the M43 combo. The S1Rii is basically the same body as the G9ii but the Sigma 150-600 is twice as heavy as the PL100-400. If 1.3 kg (vs 2kg Sigma) is true, I will be very very tempted.
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Yes, the weight is SUPER attractive. Much closer to the 100-400 than 150-600. And, if the rumor is correct, lighter than the Sigma 500/5.6.
 
With the 1.4x teleconverter it reaches 700mm, with the 2x it reaches 1000mm, but with the hybrid zoom for video it reaches 2098mm in 4K. In FHD it could reach up to 4197mm... :oops:

By the way, with the S1Rii in apsc mode you could reach 750mm with 19.6mpx resolution but you do to sacrifice 1 or 2 stops of light, right?
 
This lens looks pretty attractive. Although I don't do that much wildlife photography anymore, and I generally use M43 for telephoto, I would need to think through how much I would use it. But with HybridZoom on the S1RII, and I have a 1.4x teleconverter and some 82mm filters, I did a "Notify When Available" with B&H. I'd call it 50:50, but we'll see.
 
xaviergut said:
By the way, with the S1Rii in apsc mode you could reach 750mm with 19.6mpx resolution but you do to sacrifice 1 or 2 stops of light, right?
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Depends what you mean by “sacrifice light”. It’s still the same intensity/brightness in APSC as FF, so the exposure will be the same. Of course, you’ll lose half the sensor area so you’ll lose half (1 stop) of “total light”, but that only matters if you’re worrying about noise.
 
CharlesH said:
This lens looks pretty attractive. Although I don't do that much wildlife photography anymore, and I generally use M43 for telephoto, I would need to think through how much I would use it. But with HybridZoom on the S1RII, and I have a 1.4x teleconverter and some 82mm filters, I did a "Notify When Available" with B&H. I'd call it 50:50, but we'll see.
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If it’s sharp I might consider it for long kens work (although I do very little).
 
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