Patent: Sigma 200mm f/2 DG OS USM & 1.4 Teleconverter

[GuyF]

Anyone got any Canon 200mm f2 portraits to demonstrate the really narrow depth of field such a lens gives?

https://500px.com/search?q=200L+lisa+holloway&type=photos&sort=relevance

Thanks for the link. Of course I hadn't even thought to look in the lens gallery right here on CR! Doh! :-[

 

[TeT]

following the 500.px link: the portrait of the boy holding the chicken by Holloway is one of my all time favorite portrait snapshots...

Random & OT

 

[johnhenry]

Very interesting. I'd love a 200L f/2 but the price is so high - even secondhand - I just can't justify it (in the meantime I hope to get a 200 1.8, even with all the drawbacks - lack of IS, so-so ergonomics, focus by wire lack of repair support). A third party equivalent would be a good compromise - assuming it was reasonably good.

I own a 200mm f/1.8 and love it. That lack of IS is noticable but I have taken portraits from across a room with it at 1/15th second and could see the guys tiny nose hairs. The focus by wire is oddish but I got used to it. I also picked up a brand new focus motor on eBay in 2011 when I got the lens and wanting to think ahead.

 

[scyrene]

Very interesting. I'd love a 200L f/2 but the price is so high - even secondhand - I just can't justify it (in the meantime I hope to get a 200 1.8, even with all the drawbacks - lack of IS, so-so ergonomics, focus by wire lack of repair support). A third party equivalent would be a good compromise - assuming it was reasonably good.

I own a 200mm f/1.8 and love it. That lack of IS is noticable but I have taken portraits from across a room with it at 1/15th second and could see the guys tiny nose hairs. The focus by wire is oddish but I got used to it. I also picked up a brand new focus motor on eBay in 2011 when I got the lens and wanting to think ahead.

Good plan! I'd imagine even a broken one could sell reasonably well for parts, given there's a small and surely shrinking number of them.

 

[tpatana]

Wish I had one. Or I could settle for the Canon version too.