Canon 200-400mm review

[Warrenl]

http://pixsylated.com/blog/peter-read-miller-canon-200-400mm-london-olympics/

 

[Click]

Thanks for the link.

 

[garyknrd]

Nice pics, thanks for the link.

 

[optikus]

Very nice - interesting report on that lens - thank you vm.

Joerg

 

[Dwight]

If I were to be absolutely true to myself, this is a lens I cannot afford at the moment, yet will lust over it for sometime. Either this or the 300 2.8 II for me. Huge price difference, yet it's a consideration for me later on...budget-permitting. Will see how real-world performance pans out. Thanks for sharing.

 

[GMCPhotographics]

http://pixsylated.com/blog/peter-read-miller-canon-200-400mm-london-olympics/

Lol...I was in the audience when this shot was taken and yes I saw this chap with this lens in the Press pit.
Give me a few days and I'll dig out a photo of this very moment from a less ideal spot

 

[kaihp]

http://pixsylated.com/blog/peter-read-miller-canon-200-400mm-london-olympics/

Lol...I was in the audience when this shot was taken and yes I saw this chap with this lens in the Press pit.
Give me a few days and I'll dig out a photo of this very moment from a less ideal spot

Which of the 6 different shots are you talking about?

 

[RGF]

I ordered on from Amazon the evening of the announcement. I got a polite email from some at Amazon. May be standard form letter or something more. Not sure.

I am traveling now, but will check when I get home on Memorial Day

 

[GMCPhotographics]

http://pixsylated.com/blog/peter-read-miller-canon-200-400mm-london-olympics/

Lol...I was in the audience when this shot was taken and yes I saw this chap with this lens in the Press pit.
Give me a few days and I'll dig out a photo of this very moment from a less ideal spot

Which of the 6 different shots are you talking about?

Soz, First shot and on review it was a different day. His shot was during one of the qualifying heats. I was there for the finals and she was wearing white on that particular day:

 

[eml58]

From "Nikon Rumours", the gauntlet has been thrown down it seems.

 

[bchernicoff]

I don't think the background blur looks very good at all. And looking at the focal lengths printed under the images, I feel like everyone of them would have been better shot at 300mm f/2.8 and cropped if necessary. This assumes these weren't crops already.

 

[eml58]

I don't think the background blur looks very good at all. And looking at the focal lengths printed under the images, I feel like everyone of them would have been better shot at 300mm f/2.8 and cropped if necessary. This assumes these weren't crops already.

Well the lens is never going to be all things to all photographers, but I own the 200f/2, 300f/2.8 & 400f/2.8 Version 2 Lenses, Plus the 600f/4 Version 2, and more based on what I've seen in Andy Rousse's Review, I'de have to disagree that @ f/4 this Lens isn't just as good as any of the Primes I mentioned above, time will tell of course, once we have a few being used and start to see the Images, but I'm sold. If you haven't already, have a look here, can't see too much wrong with Bokah @ f/4, or at any other f/stop. I imagine the Photographer didn't shoot his Images at f/2.8 is because this is an f/4 Lens through the Zoom Range without the 1.4x Converter in place.


http://www.andyrouse.co.uk/index.php?page_id=174

 

[bchernicoff]

I don't think the background blur looks very good at all. And looking at the focal lengths printed under the images, I feel like everyone of them would have been better shot at 300mm f/2.8 and cropped if necessary. This assumes these weren't crops already.

Well the lens is never going to be all things to all photographers, but I own the 200f/2, 300f/2.8 & 400f/2.8 Version 2 Lenses, Plus the 600f/4 Version 2, and more based on what I've seen in Andy Rousse's Review, I'de have to disagree that @ f/4 this Lens isn't just as good as any of the Primes I mentioned above, time will tell of course, once we have a few being used and start to see the Images, but I'm sold. If you haven't already, have a look here, can't see too much wrong with Bokah @ f/4, or at any other f/stop. I imagine the Photographer didn't shoot his Images at f/2.8 is because this is an f/4 Lens through the Zoom Range without the 1.4x Converter in place.


http://www.andyrouse.co.uk/index.php?page_id=174

I was suggesting that the photographer could have just used the 300mm f/2.8 II lens. Andy's images look fantastic though and I'm sure the flexibility of having a zoom is a big help in a lot of scenarios.