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Originally Posted by capt_slow
I'm a hobby photographer shooting on a 80D and recently noticed that I've been maxing out the focal length on my EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS.
I've been wanting to get something around 400mm range, but not break the bank. Lately, I've been renting a EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6L IS II USM and the results are absolutely stunning, but it's glass that's really out of my budget. Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
Shot at 360mm on EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6L IS II USM
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What are you trying to shoot and how much do you want to spend?
On your 80D, the focal length is actually 1.6x longer due to the crop sensor so the 100-400mm is effectively a 160-640mm.
I shoot fashion as a hobby and use fairly expensive and fast lens such as the Canon 70-200 II 2.8 and Sigma 120-300 2.8. Both are heavy but are super sharp and great in low light. Samples of shots attached.
I prefer constant aperture lens (ie fixed aperture at all focal lengths) and fast aperture but if you're shooting landscape, it doesn't matter when using a tripod and a remote. The more affordable zooms don't have constant aperture or are as crisp as the premium lens but they will work fine if you know how to use them
The Sigma 150-600 and Tamron G2 are good affordable long zoom with the edge going to the G2. (Stay away from the older versions of these lens).
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And learning to use Photoshop Elements or another editing tool will do wonders for your pictures. PS Elements has a guided mode if you don't want to deal with the complexity of manually editing.