For our upcoming Galapagos trip, I have purchased a new wildlife lens that’s more suitable for the conditions I expect to encounter. The lens on the left is my existing wildlife lens, an 80-400mm zoom; the new one on the right is a 70-200mm f/4, and is better & more modern in every way except long-end magnification, which I don’t expect to need on this trip. Probably most crucially, the new one weighs a full pound less than the old. A pound may not sound like a lot, but it’s definitely noticeable when you’ve been wearing it on your back all day.
