Canon has acknowledged focusing issues with the Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM at its minimum focusing distance and is preparing a firmware update to address the issue, it looks like Canon will get this update out as soon as possible.
Canon News was the first to aggregate the issues some users have experienced with the RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM. If you don't use the lens at MFD, you won't notice the troubles.
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And, just as a "Be open minded" reminder to all forum contributors, myself included, here is the dpreview link with one of the earliest and best demonstrated reports. Look at all the blowhard responses either questioning the OP's competence or claiming he is too picky. Here's one quote that sounds so sour and so familiar in tone:
"Gotta love pixel peepers. You didn't even notice this until you came across that thread. No one will ever notice that because no one but pixel peepers zoom into people’s pupils lol. Feel free to send me your lens if you don’t want it!"
Here's the link started by a smart, earnest, and persistent Canon customer:
My RF 70-200 f2.8 is front focusing: Canon EOS R Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
Canon does step up once they figure out the problem.
Too many clowns accuse Canon of covering up, but they do not do knee jerk reactions. They wait, investigate and then find a solution.
I do not see this in other manufacturers.
Good for Canon stepping up when the matter was confirmed and a solution developed.
I think Canon will be quick to fix this issue.
Just one less lens to own and bring to shoots and weddings. Currently have the RF 35 1.8 IS Macro but would like the compression of a long lens. I should really do some test shots with the 35 as well.
Don’t expect the RF 70-200 to replace a macro lens. It’s maximum magnification ratio is 0,23, far from macro territory.
it was the customers that figured out the problem. It was a news forum that highlighted it.
there’s an important role for customer feedback. It will force a company to respond if we aren’t all corporate zombies
Cool wedding ring shots aren’t the focus of a wedding, it’s a nice creative opportunity and a necessity for our album designs for our clients. But we don’t exactly need show stopping Macro shots either.
I’ve also considered extension tubes and know the limitations. A friend of mine who’s a Sony shooter has good results with one of his setups. A nice quick and easy way to get some macro shots in run and gun situations and not having to carry another lens.
1. : tripod , Canon Eos r ,distance around 80 cm, 135mm f 2.8
2. tripod Canon eos r, distance around 1 80cm, 200mm f 2.8
My primary macro lens is my 70-200 + extension tubes.
I find the design of all macro lenses to be just nuts. 50/2.8? 100/2.8? Macro lenses need to be long (so you don't have to be practically touching your subject) and slow (DOF is vanishingly small even at f/16 at 1:1 so why do I need f/2.8?). To me, an ideal macro lens would be a compact 300mm f/8 or something like that. Because no one makes any rational macro lenses, I use my 70-200, often with teleconverters.
Which extension tubes are you using?
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LOL. Okay :rolleyes:
Fwiw I tried using the 70-200 L IS II as a 'macro' lens after I returned a faulty 180mm true macro lens, but it wasn't at all suitable. Not only is the maximum magnification too low, it's less sharp wide open, and had more fringing. It depends what your're shooting of course, but I'd tend to use a long macro lens wide open - I don't want my flowers or insects on a busy background. f/8? I'd rather do a small focus stack. (There are exceptions, like moths on a plain surface, or extreme work with the MP-E).
I'm genuinely intrigued what you'd be shooting at 300mm f/8, or what kind of image you'd be hoping to achieve with that setup. As an aside, have you considered that things seem 'nuts' because you're an outlier?
Is there any extension tubes that work with RF lenses?
I'd like to achieve a high-magnification image that's sharp and with the deepest possible depth-of-field (diffraction-limited).
I seriously hope so.
But of what? Could you post one? I'm always interested to see other people's approaches.
Most of them are taken for engineering purposes (fracture surfaces and such). I don't shoot bugs.
Oh fair enough. I can see why you'd want large DOF in that case. But you can stop down at least.