Canon EF 200mm f/2L IS USM Telephoto Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras
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This ultra-fast telephoto, a new member of Canon legendary L-series lenses, has totally new optics to provide better image quality. It uses fluorite and UD lens elements for excellent chromatic aberration correction and consists of 17 elements in 12 groups. The built-in Optical Image Stabilizer gives it up to 4 stops of stabilization correction. The inner USM and optimized AF algorithms result in fast and quiet autofocusing, and the circular aperture can even produce beautiful out-of-focus images. This ultra-high-performance lens also improves its durability – better dust- and water-proofing. The EF 200mm f/2L IS USM is outstanding for many available-light applications, including indoor sports, theater work, fashion, and candids at events.
List Price: $ 9,500.00
Price: $ 5,699.00
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Wonderful,
I do a lot of sports photography, and this is one of my favorite lenses for it. The Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM Super Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras is the classic sports photographer’s lens, but it’s extremely expensive, and so huge and heavy it’s not practical to bring to many sporting events.
I had been using the Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras instead, which is cheaper, lighter, and easier to get past stadium security.
But this lens is probably the most useful. It’s smaller than the 300mm f/2.8L. (But not lighter; it weighs almost exactly the same. You will need a monopod if you’re going to use it for any length of time.) The street price is a little higher, though the list price is lower. But the extra speed is great for night games or indoor sports. And you can use an extender and get roughly the equivalent of the 300mm f/2.8.
Excellent lens, and definitely one of my favorites.
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|Otherworldly, insane, impossible, rare, perfect, out of sight, crazy!!,
Pros:
Super fast auto focus
Speed, F/2 at 200mm!!
Unbelievable perfect 10 Images!!
This lens WILL get you attention
Otherworldly image stabilization!
Great build quality weather sealed
Fantastic perfect buttery smooth Bokeh
What a lens case! More like a high quality hard cover suitcase
The absolute best in-door concert and event lens ever created!
Cons:
Heavy and huge
This lens WILL get you attention
This is a lens cap; you gotta be kidding me! It won’t fit with hood in ready to shoot position only in stored position!
Ok, what lens bag can I purchase to have this lens and my camera and the hood extended in a ready to shoot position?
Assembly:
I’ve always lusted after this lens and finally have my hands on one but there are a few things you don’t think about. Probably like when you first win the Lotto and purchase your first Lamborghini there will be some details not in your dreams. The case was smaller then I expected but is very nice having very high quality aluminum build with lock and carrying handle (see photo I uploaded). The case even includes a set of two keys; not that locking it would do any good if the thief knew what was inside. The first thing you notice upon opening is the strange lens cap and hood assembly. The lens system takes some assembly to get ready to shoot each time since you have to remove this strange weird leather with a draw string lens cap, unscrew the hood attaching screw and reverse. If you buy and like to shoot at a moments notice you will want to purchase a large quality photo bag.
Mounting and setup:
Mounting the lens is almost a mount the camera to the lens affair but not quite as you can still do it either way. It feels a little fat and a little bit heavy if you are coming from say a Canon 70-200 F/2.8 L or 100-400 L lens. If you are used to those two lenses you will have a similar feel at first except that the hood is pretty large on the end making the lens seem bigger then it is and it’s a little bit front heavy in comparison. If you are coming from smaller lenses you are going to say holy cow this thing is huge! If you have just used a Canon 500mm f/4.0 L IS then you are going to think man this lens is very light and even hand hold able. But I say handhold with caution as my back was aching after an hour of use. For extended portrait sessions I would suggest using a monopod. And it has an excellent tripod ring with perfect tensions knob and spring loaded detents when rotating. When using without the monopod or tripod I have found it’s best to keep the ring rotated upside down as it makes a good carrying handle and if you also rotate the lens hood upside down so that the tightening knob is on top the entire assembly lens camera and all will sit pretty flat.
Controls:
All the controls were for me well placed and I rarely touched them. The manual focus ring is perfectly placed and perfectly dampened and you will never need it. Auto focus on this lens is blazing fast the fastest I have ever experienced.
IS off switch, leave it ON! Unless you are shooting birds in flight or maybe trying to track a football player just leave IS ON. It even knows when you mounted it on a tripod and continues to work well. More about IS later.
There’s a 2-position focus limiter switch that limits the minimum focus distance to 11.5′ (3.5m) to infinity. Forget that! You don’t need it. This lens focuses so fast from minimum to infinity it’s a non-issue. So just leave it set to 6.2′ (1.9m) so you don’t end up forgetting and wondering what the heck is wrong.
Preset focus system, there is a focus record Off On Record button on the control panel and preset go to buttons near the end of the lens. Don’t worry about them, you won’t need them this thing is an auto focus lighting bolt!
Stabilizer Mode 1 and 2 buttons, 1 is for vertical and horizontal and 2 for horizontal panning only. This system works so well and so much better then my old Canon 100-400 IS L that I just leave it in the 1 position no matter what I am doing and it’s just fine. On my Canon 100-400 IS L I have to turn if off when panning rapidly as it can’t keep up and produces a dark area in the exposure sometimes. I could not get it to fall behind no this lens, like I have said before the IS on this lens is the best there is!
Image Stabilizer:
Otherworldly, insane, impossible, rare, perfect, out of sight, crazy, what other adjective could I possibly use to describe the most perfect Image Stabilizer (IS) I have ever used. You can get crazy and get all the way down to 1/15s and still get sharp shots although for consistency I found 1/30 second to be more like the actual limit.
Image Quality:
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