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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Chris13 on October 23, 2008, 11:29:41 am

Title: Canon EF 70-200 f4 L IS or Canon EF 200 f2.8 L ?
Post by: Chris13 on October 23, 2008, 11:29:41 am

Hello
I'm mostly interrested by the long end range, which is the best one in term of contrast, color rendition, sharpness, etc?
I mainly use tripod.
Thanks for all

Title: Canon EF 70-200 f4 L IS or Canon EF 200 f2.8 L ?
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on October 23, 2008, 11:35:48 am

Man, if you use a tripod you will not benefit from the 2.8 unless shooting action scenes, and definitively you don't need the IS.
Just buy an affordable, light and superb quality 70-200 f4L (no IS).

Title: Canon EF 70-200 f4 L IS or Canon EF 200 f2.8 L ?
Post by: jeffreybehr on October 23, 2008, 11:57:57 am

"Just buy an affordable, light and superb quality 70-200 f4L (no IS)."

...except that the F4/IS version is sharper, apparently, based on all that I read.  It is newer than the non-IS version.  I have an F4/IS but no other 70-200s, so I can't compare directly.

Chris, SEARCH a bunch on DPR's Canon-lens forum... http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1029 (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1029) .  Probably you'll learn a lot.

Title: Canon EF 70-200 f4 L IS or Canon EF 200 f2.8 L ?
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on October 23, 2008, 12:02:18 pm

Quote from: jeffreybehr

...except that the F4/IS version is sharper, apparently, based on all that I read.  It is newer than the non-IS version.  I have an F4/IS but no other 70-200s, so I can't compare directly.

The difference in sharpness, if any, will be so negligible that would never justify doubling the price unless you really can benefit from the IS. Putting a expensive IS lens on a tripod is just surrealistic.

Title: Canon EF 70-200 f4 L IS or Canon EF 200 f2.8 L ?
Post by: imak on October 23, 2008, 01:21:14 pm

If you don't need at all the flexibility of the zoom, and you don't mind yhat wih the zoom you will be able to shoot without a tripod thanks to the IS,
I think that the prime will be best for you.
What do you shoot?

Also check and this...
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews...mp;CameraComp=9 (http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?SampleComp=0&FLI=4&API=0&Lens=404&Camera=9&FLIComp=0&APIComp=0&LensComp=245&CameraComp=9)


best regards,
Ioannis

Title: Canon EF 70-200 f4 L IS or Canon EF 200 f2.8 L ?
Post by: Ralph Wagner on October 23, 2008, 02:40:15 pm

I had both for awhile. I kept the IS version for the IS, not for the image quality. You would have to engage in extreme pixel peeping to see any difference and even then you would be wrong more often than right.

Quote from: Chris13

Hello
I'm mostly interrested by the long end range, which is the best one in term of contrast, color rendition, sharpness, etc?
I mainly use tripod.
Thanks for all

Title: Canon EF 70-200 f4 L IS or Canon EF 200 f2.8 L ?
Post by: Panopeeper on October 23, 2008, 02:47:45 pm

Focusing

All Canon cameras below the 1 serie need at least f/2.8 in order to use the high accuracy phase shift focusing (available only in the center). The 1 serie can do this from f/4.