dolina wrote:
I saw the price of the Laowa 200mm f/2.0 for EF mount and it's an eye opening $1,699.
No wonder Canon's locking down the RF mount hard.
How does it perform in indoor sports like basketball?
I'm guessing it wouldn't be great, as it can struggle with fast moving subjects. For slower moving animals like deer and turkey it still had some notable misses.
dolina wrote:
I saw the price of the Laowa 200mm f/2.0 for EF mount and it's an eye opening $1,699.
No wonder Canon's locking down the RF mount hard.
Canon, like Nikon, feels they need to set the 'tone' for their system. They also have to hit critical mass in terms of shipping their own lenses; they can't rely on the professionals to get a return on the investment.
And there's a significant disparity in the cost to Canon to develop lenses versus the Chinese manufacturers. So they're being protectionist here.
chuck4242 wrote:
I'm guessing it wouldn't be great, as it can struggle with fast moving subjects. For slower moving animals like deer and turkey it still had some notable misses.
I have a rental unit coming from Lensrentals for my daughter's soccer matches next weekend. I just wanted to give the lens a go it's kind of short for soccer but I'll just have to walk up and down the sideline.
Dpedraza wrote:
I have a rental unit coming from Lensrentals for my daughter's soccer matches next weekend. I just wanted to give the lens a go it's kind of short for soccer but I'll just have to walk up and down the sideline.
I ended up ordering one, which should be arriving this week. I also got a Kenko 1.4X TELEPLUS HD DGX Teleconverter that I've already tested on my other EF lens...works as good as native and I won't have to use the Commlite adapter.
I received the lens yesterday and went out to test the lens and saw nothing larger than a sparrow. Not what I bought this lens for, so here's some tests with my dog, Ivy. Overall, the autofocus is slow which makes my lack of a steady hand an issue (plus lack of IS on this lens) at times. This version of the lens has a firmware of 1.1.6. The rented version from a couple of weeks ago had a firmware version of 1.1.5. This copy seems much sharper than the one I rented at f/2.
Interesting issues with teleconverters and this lens. The Kenko x1.4 that I bought will only work on my R5. On the R50, it just makes a clicking sound and on my R7 it doesn't get good focus, it's always slightly off. Results are sharper with the RF adapter regardless, so that might be the way forward since I wanted this as a baby 300mm f2.8 for shots of larger animals. The EF x2 is struggling to focus on this copy of the lens, where it did wonderfully on the rented copy. I'm going to clean the connectors to see if that helps at all. The EF x1.4 still is too tight of a fit and only does manual focus.
Haven’t had a chance to use it recently because I’ve been playing with a couple of other pieces on the Sony side. Will hopefully loop back around to this thing soon.
Another fun portrait with my dog Ivy. This one is shot on my R5, where I'm having much better luck with consistent keepers than on my R7. The lens just struggles a ton with my R7 with animals that are even moderately far away.
I had a rafter of Wild Turkeys roosting in the yard for the first time in a couple of years. I got this one during the end of blue hour after the moon had risen. This is shot at 20k ISO, but at 1600 shutter speed. I overcompensated on the ISO level because of the lack if IS, but the R5 had no problem with it.
I know nobody asked for this, but this thread made me nostalgic, haha, so here are a few with the Canon EF 200mm f/2.0L IS from back in the day. It's bigger and heavier than the Laowa, but still pretty special, I think. In any case, these may be a good reference for comparison.
Thanks for indulging me.
Canon EOS 5D Mark IIEF200mm f/2L IS USM lens200mmf/2.01/125s800 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS 5D Mark IIEF200mm f/2L IS USM lens200mmf/2.01/6000s100 ISO-0.5 EV
Canon EOS 5D Mark IIEF200mm f/2L IS USM lens200mmf/2.01/4000s100 ISO0.0 EV
Canon EOS-1D Mark IVEF200mm f/2L IS USM lens200mmf/2.01/160s1000 ISO0.0 EV
Part of the reason I recently got the Laowa 200mm f/2 was for more unique wildlife shots in their environment. The Turkey Roosting under Moonlight photo (earlier in this thread) was the first one that achieved that goal, this is the second.
