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- robsarg_91 (1798)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseThank you for an easy, pleasant transaction. Excellent buyer. A++++++.
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May 26, 2020
Exceptional lens for a keen price
There is an f2.8 and an f4 version of this lens. There is a stop of difference. It will cost you $1000 to get back to 2.8.
Because it's a 70-200mm, I don't expect to be shooting in lightless, enclosed spaces as I do with my 24-70mm f2.8, so going with the f4 is fine.
These days, with the expanded range of noiseless ISO's, compensate for the lost stop by increasing your ISO instead. You can shoot clean at 3200 and pretty much up to 5000, thus making the stop difference a very small issue.
This lens is considerably lighter than the 2.8, so you won't be using it to increase muscle mass, but carrying it around for punched-in close-ups is not unlike carrying the 24-70mm 2.8 for weight. It's not a problem unless you're a terrible cry-baby.
Images are very clean, a UV is recommended for lens protection (I went with a B+W), and auto-focusing is swift. The design and build is super-pro, lens bag is thick and firm, and bokeh is attractive, even from corner to corner.
I'm not capable of forensically examining the pixels or obsessively measuring edge focus. Having just tinkered with and refined a number of RAW images with my ON1 PHOTO RAW program, I'm very happy with this purchase.
Surely the 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 will be next for consideration. My ongoing work interviewing entertainment-related subjects necessitates a broad range of focal perspectives.
Feb 28, 2017
A modern masterpiece of Czech cinema
This superb BluRay of Jan Sverak's modern masterpiece presents the film in a form not previously available. Now it is possible to appreciate it in HD.