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p.3 #1 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

One wedding with the lens and this shot was at hand.

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Dec 30, 2008 at 11:00 PM

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p.3 #2 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

Sejanus,

It's evident displaying the results of that lens can kick up your market's niche target price by 30-50% up.

In other words, if you were charging 2k now you'd be easily charging 3k and make your investment money back in no time.

I think I'll save up for this bad boy and skip 85L II instead.

Dec 31, 2008 at 09:42 AM

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p.3 #3 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

Red,

VERY nice. The colors and the bokeh (not to mention sharpness) are extremely evident here.

Any mods or color alteration?

Dec 31, 2008 at 09:43 AM

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p.3 #4 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

My 200 1.8 was the best decision i EVER made with my photography, it produces more Wows on location but even more importantly on presentation of the final product.

Jan 06, 2009 at 05:17 AM

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p.3 #5 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

Nathan Hobbs wrote:
My 200 1.8 was the best decision i EVER made with my photography, it produces more Wows on location but even more importantly on presentation of the final product.

I'd seriously consider swapping for the 200/1.8 if it had IS. Even with the 2/3 stop advantage (due to the differing t-stops of the two lenses, the 200/1.8 transmits more light through at f/2 than the 200/2 does at f/2), it still doesn't make the lens hand-holdable at light that meters as 1/30 sec with the 200/2 (the 200/1.8 would register 1/50 sec, and you'd have to be mighty steady at 200mm with a lens known to not have the best balance for handholding). Although coupled with a 5DII and ISO6400 that could get you up to 1/80 or 1/100... hmm.

The wedding I played with the 200/2 had a ceremony metered at ISO3200, 1/20 sec f/2. Pretty darn dark and the 135L was useless. With the 5D2 and 200/1.8 I could swing ISO6400, f/1.8 to get 1/60 SS.

Perhaps Nathan, you could comment on the success rate of hand-holding the 200/1.8 at 1/60 sec?

Jan 06, 2009 at 09:21 PM

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p.3 #6 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

i used to have a 200/1.8

the f2 version is much, much nicer to hold - IS aside.

the 1.8 is very front heavy.

Jan 06, 2009 at 09:29 PM

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p.3 #7 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

Sejanus,

Awesome pictures! It's certainly a fabulous lens, but there's alot of PP work here too. The colors look great but not completely natural IMHO. How much saturation did you use?

Jan 06, 2009 at 10:03 PM

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p.3 #8 · Help me spend $$- 200mm f/2 IS?

I like em saturated yeah - a bit of the vibrancy slider in aperture. I am not going for realism

Jan 06, 2009 at 10:26 PM


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