Canon does indeed have some uniquely interesting offerings for event and sport shooters. And indeed a 100/120-300mm f2.8 is a no brainer compared to a fixed 300mm f2.8 for those applications. The only lens I’d rather have is a 100-200mm f2.0 TC. But that doesn’t exist… yet.
The 70-200mm f4 debate is interesting especially when you compare it to a 70-180mm f2.8 offering about the same weight, one stop more light but 20mm shorter. It would be best to be able to choose either I guess.
On the standard end of the discussion, having done a bit of event shooting myself I personally find the Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 an even more flexible one stop solution but it’s a matter of personal taste I guess. I know quite a few wedding shooters that basically do 80% of their work with that one lens. It’s not amazing optically, I had shot some images with a 85mm f1.2 at f1.2 also during the same event and they were significantly sharper than the Tamron at f2,8… but that’s mostly irrelevant for such images.
I expect 24-70mm f2.0 lenses to become available in the coming months and I’ll be more tempted than by the 28-70mm f2.0 whose range I find a bit narrow. And hopefully they’ll have less objectionable bokeh balls. A personal thing also but I hate to have to apply blur to my backgrounds to remove grinding marks in bokeh balls. But it often isn’t an issue for events I am sure.
Canon does indeed have some uniquely interesting offerings for event and sport shooters. And indeed a 100/120-300mm f2.8 is a no brainer compared to a fixed 300mm f2.8 for those applications. The only lens I’d rather have is a 100-200mm f2.0 TC. But that doesn’t exist… yet.
The 70-200mm f4 debate is interesting especially when you compare it to a 70-180mm f2.8 offering about the same weight, one stop more light but 20mm shorter. It would be best to be able to choose either I guess.
On the standard end of the discussion, having done a bit of event shooting myself I personally find the Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 an even more flexible one stop solution but it’s a matter of personal taste I guess. I know quite a few wedding shooters that basically do 80% of their work with that one lens. It’s not amazing optically, I had shot some images with a 85mm f1.2 at f1.2 also during the same event and they were significantly sharper than the Tamron at f2,8… but that’s mostly irrelevant for such images.
I expect 24-70mm f2.0 lenses to become available in the coming months and I’ll be more tempted than by the 28-70mm f2.0 whose range I find a bit narrow. And hopefully they’ll have less objectionable bokeh balls. A personal thing also but I hate to have to apply blur to my backgrounds to remove grinding marks in bokeh balls.
Canon does indeed have some uniquely interesting offerings for event and sport shooters. And indeed a 100/120-300mm f2.8 is a no brainer compared to a fixed 300mm f2.8 for those applications. The only lens I’d rather have is a 100-200mm f2.0 TC. But that doesn’t exist… yet.
The 70-200mm f4 debate is interesting especially when you compare it to a 70-180mm f2.8 offering about the same weight, one stop more light but 20mm shorter. It would be best to be able to choose either I guess.
On the standard end of the discussion, having done a bit of event shooting myself I personally find the Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 an even more flexible one stop solution but it’s a matter of personal taste I guess. I know quite a few wedding shooters that basically do 80% of their work with that one lens. It’s not amazing optically, I had shot some images with a 85mm f1.2 at f1.2 also and the were significantly sharper than the Tamron at f2,8… but that’s mostly irrelevant for such images.
I expect 24-70mm f2.0 lenses to become available in the coming months and I’ll be more tempted than by the 28-70mm f2.0 whose range I find a bit narrow. And hopefully they’ll have less objectionable bokeh balls. A personal thing also but I hate to have to apply blur to my backgrounds to remove grinding marks in bokeh balls.
Canon does indeed have some uniquely interesting offerings for event and sport shooters. And indeed a 100/120-300mm f2.8 is a no brainer compared to a fixed 300mm f2.8 for those applications. The only lens I’d rather have is a 100-200mm f2.0 TC. But that doesn’t exist… yet.
The 70-200mm f4 debate is interesting especially when you compare it to a 70-180mm f2.8 offering about the same weight, one stop more light but 20mm shorter. It would be best to be able to choose either I guess.
On the standard end of the discussion, having done a bit of event shooting myself I personally find the Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 an even more flexible one stop solution but it’s a matter of personal taste I guess. I know quite a few wedding shooters that basically do 80% of their work with that one lens.
I expect 24-70mm f2.0 lenses to become available in the coming months and I’ll be more tempted than by the 28-70mm f2.0 whose range I find a bit narrow. And hopefully they’ll have less objectionable bokeh balls. A personal thing also but I hate to have to apply blur to my backgrounds to remove grinding marks in bokeh balls.
Canon does indeed have some uniquely interesting offerings for event and sport shooters. And indeed a 100/120-300mm f2.8 is a no brainer compared to a fixed 300mm f2.8 for those applications. The only lens I’d rather have is a 100-200mm f2.0 TC. But that doesn’t exist… yet.
The 70-200mm f4 debate is interesting especially when you compare it to a 70-180mm f2.8 offering about the same weight, one stop more light but 20mm shorter. It would be best to be able to choose either I guess.
On the standard end of the discussion, having done a bit of event shooting myself I personally find the Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 an even more flexible one stop solution but it’s a matter of personal taste I guess. I know quite a few wedding shooters that basically do 80% of their work with that one lens. I expect 24-70mm f2.0 lenses to become available in the coming months and I’ll be more tempted than by the 28-70mm f2.0 whose range I find a bit narrow. And hopefully they’ll have less objectionable bokeh balls. A personal thing also but I hate to have to apply blur to my backgrounds to remove grinding marks in bokeh balls.
