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Best Budget Telephoto Lens for Low-light photography (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m trying to pick a DSLR-compatible Canon telephoto lens for wildlife photography in low-light conditions (also, I like doing urban candid photography/street photography from distances, so that too). Naturally, this means high ISO and low f-stop. For some reason, all I can find are like f-4; is that normal? Also, what’s with all the “telephoto” lenses that max out at 200mm? Shouldn’t something like 400mm be better? I suppose I don’t want something too bulky, so 400mm is probably pushing it but idk… if you have experience in this, let me know what you think. I can only seem to find a handful of options, and most are for mirrorless cameras which sucks because I don’t want too many camera bodies so getting ANOTHER one for this purpose would really clutter my shelves as I don’t have any mirrorless Canon’s.

Anyways, budget is tight, nothing north of $1000, let me know what you think!

Edit: Posted in wildlife photo community, but it was dead (no posts since like 2 months ago) so figured I'd move it here.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well there is a 800mm f5.6, and a 600mm f4, and a 400mm f2.8, but of course they are bulky and pricey. More light needs bigger glass.

And then there's budget lenses. You can't have it all at once.