Help me get in trouble with the wife

tailingendloop77

I'm thinking of sneaking some equipment into the house using a little bonus check money. Current body is a 7D and my best glass is the 70-200 f 2.8 and 1.4X TC. I could likely afford the 400mm f 5.6 or a used 5D mark ii (or possibly a mark iii). So which is it - glass or body?

JustKeepSwimming

  

I have no useful input but the title cracked me up. 

JWT

so what do you shoot mainly?  

Slough

Post picture of wife, then we can photoshop and make your title come true.

xenia

Both.  You can get a teleconverter and turn your 70-200 into a longer lens, although I'm not sure how it will effect your f2.8 speed.  This way you can still get a new body.  Wish I had more info but I use Nikon.  My 80-400mm lens is awesome, BTW.

jbdba01

Glass...skip the converter, but as mentioned what is your primary goal on shooting?  portraits, wedding, sports, landscape/outdoors, birds?  Plenty of sites that have comparisons.

tailingendloop77

There are the replies! (no pix of wife, sorry, never gonna happen, imagine Helen Hunt in her heyday)... I want to shoot birds better. I'm leaning towards the 400mm f5.6 or maybe even the 2X teleconverter, but I know the lens will be sharper, all things considered.

Here's a recent shot, but done with my school's equipment, a T6 and cheapo 75-300... It's the shot that made me wish for something more

tailingendloop77

I shot this one with my old 20D...


same canal trip in Mt. Dora several years ago...

JWT

glass! the 7D is a very capable body. the new Canon 100-400mm is a very good lens. the first generation is good also & can be had used very reasonably. then there is the Sigma 150-600. less than a grand & 600mm! i have one & it gets used a lot. but you are not going to "sneak" that thing anywhere!!!!!  

xenia

The Canon 100-400mm is the equivalent to my NIkonn 80-400mm.  Both are excellent if you want it for birds.  Here are a couple of examples of my recent shots with my D7200 and 80-400 combo.  Hope this helps.

xenia

Another pic.

xenia

Here's a Black-capped Petrel I photographed when I borrowed by friend's Canon with the 100-400mm lens.  If birds are your target, that's the lens I'd recommend.