70-200 w/ 1.4 is weather sealed w/ a filter on the front completes the weather sealing. I know I enjoy the heck out of my 70-200

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@ jrw

thanks for the tips, i hear it's about 3kg so testing it out is a must. From the chicken photos Jayson posted the bokeh certainly looks pleasing. in fact on a whole those photos looked great! I agree it sounds like a great lens for the price. I can't remember where i read it but the sigma is not weather sealed. Which is a big thing for me, thanks for pointing it out. Also that 105mm filter! so big...

Do you know if the canon 70-200 2.8 is ii + 1.4 extender is weather sealed? or is the lens only weather sealed by itself?

after reviewing my application i think the versatility of the 70-200 + extender is beginning to appeal to me, when i am not out in the field searching for wildlife or shooting sports, i can take the extender off and i've got a great zoom portrait lens. Plus there are about a thousand reviews saying how good the canon is, so that's another tick. As far as the aperture goes with the extender, 280mm at f4 will still have nice separation of the subject i think. I mean really its 450mm with my body at f4 which definitely will have some nice separation.

And if I am not happy with the canon it will sell a lot better second hand than if i tried the sigma first. Thanks again, great links Jason.