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p.11 #17 · Post your Canon 200mm f/2 (200/2) shots! | |
This is another thread we must not let die.
How else can we communicate the characteristics of the lens ? With words alone ?
The duck photography season is here and with it our usual wretched weather/light of the Great Lakes.
In fact, the use of 200 f/2.0 for these kinda shooting conditions could hardly be justified.
First and foremost, its target isolating capability is wasted on that wretched background. Second, if shot wide open, it is difficult maintaining sufficiently sharp focus on bird's head because of very narrow DoF. Thirdly, at shutter speeds needed here, IS is hardly of any help.....after all, the lens is only 200mm.
One would probably do better by using 200 f/2.8 or 300 f/4 prime.......much cheaper, much lighter, and there shouldn't be a problem in raising ISO by one or two stops in order to shoot at preferred F/4 or f/5.6.
The two shots below are about 50% enlargement crops, lens wide open, ISO 200, camera 1DMkIIN.
Edited on Oct 08, 2009 at 07:16 PM · View previous versions
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