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Contemplating buying a tele lens for nature/wildlife photography. I appreciate that for longer distance subjects I really need 400+mm even on a my crop sensor Canon but I don't have the money for that and realistically I'm envisaging most of my shots are likely to be in the garden or maybe closer subjects at a local bird hide. I'd narrowed it down to what seems to be a popular choice. A used Canon 55-250 IS STM or tghe Tamron 70-300 VC. Both are F4-5.6 lenses. I had pretty much decided on the latter. However scanning around the used items on MPB I came across a Canon 200mm F2.8 L ii USM and reading the reviews it looks an excellent performer in a very compact package. The question is in terms of image quality and resolution whether a cropped image with this lens would be better than a full image with the other lenses mentioned. The Canon 200mm does not have the flexibility of the zoom or stabilisation but F2.8 vs F4-5.6 is attractive. I could just about stump up the extra cash but would it be the better option?