Carrying my 200-500mm in a similar manner is certainly do-able, but always feels a tad bulky with the extra length and mass swinging around, and is certainly more conspicuous.ĭespite placing a focus sensor directly above the Canada geese in the middle of the frame, the focus is slightly off in this image, with the reeds being more sharp than the geese. It packs readily into almost any camera bag, even with the lens hood on, and sat effortlessly on my hip when slung over my shoulder messenger-style (using a Peak Design slide strap), even on long walkabouts. The lens is remarkably light, well-balanced, and is essentially as hand-holdable as the 70-200mm in almost any circumstance I could imagine. While the image above and the official spec sheet dimensions tell a story, it’s not until you hold the lens in your hand that you fully appreciate just what kind of sorcery is going on with the PF design. For reference, that’s like removing almost exactly the weight of the 860g D500 that many would tend to pair up with these lenses. That’s nearly a full kilo or just under two pounds of weight savings. Impressively, compared to the 200-500mm that weighs in at 2300g or 5.1lbs, the 500mm PF is a svelte 1460g or 3.2lbs.
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