Spectro wrote:
I’m a guessing this may have been discussed already but can anyone who has moved from the 24-70 f4s to the 24-70 2.8s comment on your experience?
From what I am seeing the 24-70 2.8s looks like a real winner that would be worth building a FF Z system around and compliment with my existing e glass sometime in the future as I would still live in both ecosystems.
If I’ve missed a thread on this feel free to point me to it. Thx.
I have both. I haven't touched f4 since getting the f2.8. It's 100% subjective but imo 2.8 has that special something. I'm keeping the slower zoom to pass to the wife when the time to upgrade Z6 comes.
Spectro wrote:
I’m a guessing this may have been discussed already but can anyone who has moved from the 24-70 f4s to the 24-70 2.8s comment on your experience?
From what I am seeing the 24-70 2.8s looks like a real winner that would be worth building a FF Z system around and compliment with my existing e glass sometime in the future as I would still live in both ecosystems.
If I’ve missed a thread on this feel free to point me to it. Thx.
I have both the 24-70 f4S and the 24-70 f2.8S and I haven't used my 24-70 f4S since getting the f2.8S. Whilst the 24-70 f4S is excellent, the 24-70 f2.8S is quite spectacular, literally a bag of primes in the one lens. It is sharp at every focal length, every aperture and at every subject distance. It is basically without flaw, IMO. I have kept the 24-70 f4S as a lightweight travel lens but I just prefer the output of the f2.8S.
Thanks Lance and Luke. That’s encouraging although I don’t plan to get a FF Z until likely next year. Ironically, of all the lenses I own, the 24-70 is not one of them My plan is to add the lenses I don’t own as gap fillers when I eventually jump in. The 24-70 and 14-30 will fit that bill.
So, did a little more testing today, on a bigger field I have to say this lens is almost like cheating the quality of the images coming out is amazing. Tried various modes, Wide-S seemed to work best, but subject tracking wasn't far behind. On an open field like this it's very usable. A few photos below, more on my Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/luftwalk/albums/72157714306392862/with/49902395816/
Luftwalk wrote:
So, did a little more testing today, on a bigger field I have to say this lens is almost like cheating the quality of the images coming out is amazing. Tried various modes, Wide-S seemed to work best, but subject tracking wasn't far behind.
Luftwalk wrote:
So, did a little more testing today, on a bigger field I have to say this lens is almost like cheating the quality of the images coming out is amazing. Tried various modes, Wide-S seemed to work best, but subject tracking wasn't far behind. On an open field like this it's very usable.
Great set Luftwalk. Was that 300mm lens hard to hand hold or did you use a mono or tripod?
NissanPatrol wrote:
I see many cars
Did you open in Germany?
I worked for short while in Stutgart with Warner and Pfliderer in 1984
The picture was taken in February when the world was still in order. In the meantime, the lockdown is almost over again and it actually looks like this again on the streets. Greetings from Germany and stay healthy.
Great set Luftwalk. Was that 300mm lens hard to hand hold or did you use a mono or tripod?
I always hand hold, that's why I went for this model since it's lighter than the others. The price being lower helped as well I used to hand hold the Sigma 120-300 Sport which was a whole kg heavier... it's still a heavy lens though and it does tire you eventually
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