When he got in the dugout he probably let out a loud , painful scream . <| sep |> Thanks for the writeup ! Renting does seem like a good idea , in terms of trying something expensive out before buying . Only problem is there isn ' t that many shops that rents out gear around here , and those who do , has maybe 56 different lenses and only 2 super telephoto . So no 200500 , or 400 mm . Not even 300 mm . It ' s just so hard to pick , because you can read a review and think whoa that sounds great , I think I found my lens . and then the next one you read it ' s a totally different story , maybe because of the writer , but also due to bad and good copies of lenses . It would suck to spend $ 1000 ish and then get a bad copy that is noticeably less sharp than it should be . Things like that is why I ' m leaning more towards just getting the 70300 mm 4 . 55 . 6 I think it is , and then wait until I can afford a high end lens that won ' t have problems with consistency bad copies . I don ' t know .