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Super-Tele Primes For Mirrorless

For wildlife photographers, super-telephoto lenses are the key to capturing close-up, engaging compositions of subjects safely and respectfully. Keeping your distance from wildlife is an important ethical consideration year-round but especially in fall as animals are busy preparing for the coming winter season.

The advantages of prime lenses compared to zooms are generally better image quality and constant maximum apertures, but that performance comes at a price, not only in dollars but also in size and weight.

The options for super-tele primes were once very

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