It is so nice to listen to you sharing your experience with these lenses....you are calm and at peace and that is the key !

Not only did you do a wonderful job comparing the lenses in English but your music in the video is great and the photos you took were splendid

Those photos you took are amazing! Thank you for the great honest review.

Well done. Specific and concise to answer those questions which were on everybody’s minds.

Thanks for the great info. Love the photos you share as well as the straightforward and concise descriptions. I have also preordered the rIV which I am so excited to hear that you felt it was like shooting the a9. Great English, as well!

I appreciate the focus in your review. Getting to the information that matters with little filler.

Great shots and info! Thank you for this video. I like how you color grade. Very contrasty and interesting. That’s how I like to grade as well.

Just wanted to say your English is awesome! Thanks for the excellent review! I think you have convinced me that I need the 200-600mm.

great great review!! the 200-600 is what i will be purchasing after your review.

Thanks for the great review!

Thank you for an informative video! I agree with the others, your English is more than good enough.

That first shot 🤤. I would die happy if I could just get a shot like that!

Great pics!! Nice Review. Thanks

A great video! Thank you! Very helpful and your final words are worthwhile thinking about - buy both lenses! )))

Excellent review!

Great job! Thank you for your nice work.

Very nice down to eath presentation of the Sony telezooms !

Great video Michael - thank you! And your English is excellent, by the way.

Super review and your English is excellent!

Great video mate!

Sir.....I love your videos. I can totally understand everything your saying. I'm a beginner wildlife photographer and I am totally a sony fan. I am hoping I can save to get the 200-600mm. That is the best thing sony has done since I got my a6300 lol. Anyhow, keep uploading awesome videos. Thank you, sir.

Thanks a lot. I own a 100 - 400mm G Master and SEL20TC, but exchanging them for a 200 - 600mm + SEL14TC. I require the longer reach and fully accept the slight loss in image quality.

The english is fine man. Great review.

Very informative! Thanks a lot! Trying to decide what telephoto lens to get for my 7iii, however I shoot videos mostly, and I really want to do more wildlife videos, so I think longer reach comes in handy for that purpose. Have you tried these lenses for videos? If so could you please give any feedback?

Nice video sir....... & .......thanks for sharing knowledge.

Thanks for your review. Your English is excellent btw

Great video!

Better English than many of my countrymen. Great review.

Hi Michael very good review👍. Could you please do a in depth review of the lens with an aps-c body? I own an A6300 and interesting in buying the 200-600 lens but my budget does not allow to buy a full frame camera also😀…thank you and keep on the good work!!

Fear not Michael, your English is considerably better than many Brits. Very informative video, thanks

Great video. I use a6500 with 100-400 and 2x. I need that extra reach photographing surfing.

Excellent review and thanks for comparing this to the 100-400. You answered some very important questions without a lengthy blah, blah. Thanks! I shoot Sony for landscape, however because Sony would not commit even to a 100-400 during the A7r days, I decided to replace my heavy Canon (1DMk4, 500 f/4 & 100-400) with the Fuji 100-400 for wildlife. However, now that Sony has the 100-400 and a reasonably priced 200-600 I may replace Fuji with Sony. Especially if Sony provides a nice weatherproof crop sensor body upgrade over the A6400. :-)

Very nice review and presentation. Photos were outstanding examples. I ordered the 100-400 GM approximately 3 weeks before the 200-600 G was released. I returned the 100-400 Since it was still not n the return window. Now, I am sorry I returned it. I could have used it on my a7iii with aspc mode and clear image zoom and would have a great reach. I did like the fact that the 200-600 had internal zoom. So, not sure what I will do. Maybe reorder the 100-400 and see if it will fit my needs. I really don’t want to use the 1.4 x TC if I can get good images with clear image zoom and aspc modes. I have the 70-200 and love it.

Hi Michael, a useful review. Did you try the crop sensor mode on the A7R3? I know this is "only" 18mpx, but obviously gives extra reach without the converter.

Great video! Does stabilization turn off when it is on a tripod automatically like 100-400 GM or does it still work?

Excellent presentation and comparison. So am I to understand that the 100-400 is sharper till 400mm and the 200-600 is sharper at 600 than the 100-400 with the TC? How big of a difference are we talking about in sharpness between the 100-400 with TC vs the 200-600 at the far end of the focal length (600 mm)?

great video

The 200-600 seems to be a better option. You can take a compressed landscape with 200 but you have the great benefit of getting that 600 mm reach , which is just amazing for wildlife .

Can you comment on the subject acquisition and tracking between the two?

Thanks for the RAWs! You didn't include a 600mm/f6.3 shot of those lovely, pixel peeper friendly fir cones without TC (you did include 600mm/f9 with TC). You don't happen to have that combination as well?

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Simple Buy 70-200 f2.8 and 200-600 if u want great portrait and wildlife photography both And if u need both a little downgrade in low budget buy a 100-400mm f4.5-5.6

Your English is good and I enjoyed your video but I wish you would have really narrowed down the one you would get if you can only have one of these.

Hi i,m buy my first sony camera (a7 iii )(I had a canon D550 with 100-400 mm lense, it got stolen), I,m a beginner i will mainly be shooting wildlife and sport photos of children playing Rugby(fussball). which lense would you buy? 100-400 or 200-600. Then what would your second lens be? (eg 28-100 or just a 50mm prime).

Your English is very good, no need to worry.

Great review but at the end still confused about which one to buy (not your fault of course). Since the image quality apparently has not a big difference between the two lenses and having already a 70-200 it seems more obvious to go for the 200-600. Said that though, be able to have a telephoto lens that can focus at just under a meter compared to the 2,4m it's a big bonus too. At the same time if you want to use a teleconverter you loose a lot of light and from my experience with the SIGMA 150-600 i can tell you it makes a big difference. Buying both lenses? Best choice but it's a hell of a lot of money and for just an amateur do you think it's worth it? My conclusion? Probably I'll go for 100-400 and renting 600 when I'll know i need it (maybe I will change my mind after the next couple of videos of comparison) :-P :-P :-P P.S. really enjoyed your video Michael, good job!!!!!

if you could have only one.... which would you choose?

A really good comparison. Dein Englisch ist besser als mein Deutsch

Wondering hows 200-600 working on the crop sensor camera

I've bought 100-400, and I miss this 200mm.

If we are talking about birding, reach is king, you are always shooting at max focal length and max aperture. The 100-400mm is simply not long enough at the end of the day. After you have shot at 600mm or 900mm on a APS-C body or using the APS-C crop on the A7R III, I don't know how you can go back to the 100-400mm, you would feel inadequate. Unless you are talking about a fixed situation such as shooting from a hideout at birds 20 ft away in your garden, then 400mm may well be enough. I am not even a Sony shooter, at least not yet and I want this lens.

Du hast vergessen zu erwähnen, dass man mit dem 100 - 400 Objektiv durch die kurze Naheinstellgrenze, von knapp unter einem Meter, auch sehr schöne "Makroaufnahmen" machen kann, das geht mit dem 200 - 600 er Objektiv nicht annähernd so gut.

This is an awesome lens, I was able to test one out recently and I really liked it. However I am a Nikon holdout as I am a photojournalist and I have tons of gear including two D4s' and a 400mm 2.8 VR lens. So my only complaint besides Sony's bad ergonomics and menu's is that this lens is a 200mm F6 and for the same amount of money a Nikon shooter could buy a mint condition 200-400mm F4 VR lens. Which is slightly faster to focus, sharper and better build quality so it just reaffirmed my excellent decision to stay with Nikon and I couldn't be happier that all of the rest of the photography world is switching to Sony!!!

English is great. No need to apologize!

Give me your lens, i will use in my a5000 🤣

yeah put a $20000.00 glass at the edge of the table with a $2000.00 camera on it !

Fantastic review, thank you so much.