Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM Lens

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The broad zoom ring occupies most of the barrel, meaning it falls naturally to hand during shooting. It rotates through approximately 90 degrees from the wide to telephoto positions, meaning no shift in grip is required to access the full zoom range. It’s a little stiff in operation, with a noticeable increase in force required to get past the 100mm point, but this doesn’t hamper composition in practical use. The smoothly rotating manual focus ring is placed further forwards, and activates a focus-by-wire mechanism. Olympus 12-200mm f/3.5-6.3: Autofocus The Panasonic Lumix G Leica 200mm lens has a range of fantastic features to improve its utility. It has several manual and autofocus control buttons that make focusing a simple process. In addition, the lens also comes with a 1.4x teleconverter which can boost its focal distance to 280mm.

To convert 200 mm to inches, multiply 200 by 0.0393700787 (or divide by 25.4), that makes 200 mm equal to 7.8740157 inches.This features a perforated seal on the moving inner barrel, to enable air movement while keeping dust and moisture out. While we previously had reservations about whether water and particulates would penetrate the seals (especially if zooming in and out in wet or dusty conditions), we've yet to hear any such complaints about the f/2.8 version so we've no reason to believe it will be an issue here. In 2020, some foundries raised their 200mm prices for customers. “There are selective price increases by foundries, but it’s not across the board,” Wang said. “TSMC has openly declared it will see no 200mm price increases and has encouraged 200mm customers to move up to use 300mm fabs to maintain their long-term relationships. Other Taiwan foundries have some limited price increases. They have contract agreements with many customers that keep prices stable. But select medium- and low-volume customers have experienced more price increases.”

For foundries and equipment vendors, the challenge is to meet 200mm capacity demand. But that’s easier said than done. Buy if: You own a Canon mirrorless camera and you're looking for a versatile lens to upgrade your setup. The 12-200mm is surprisingly capable when it comes to close-ups. Olympus E-M5 II, 1/1250sec at f/6.3, ISO 1250 I tested this lens with both of my Nikon Z cameras, Z6 and Z7. You will find original size, unedited JPEG files later on in this article. The photos here were not taken for the purpose of a test but rather real life shots, from my photo outings, hikes and family days. In other words – the lens was used for the intended purpose, not for theoretical tests. The most popular and well-known configuration of a 70-200mm lens is a 70-200mm f/2.8. These are the best choice, with their fast, constant f/2.8 aperture that gives you plenty of latitude to work in low light and also allows for the creation of shallow depth of field.

Eric Esteve on Considering Semiconductor Implementation Aspects Early During Network-on-Chip Development Picture quality for the Sigma holds up through f/11, drops slightly at f/16 (4,100 lines), and more noticeably declines at the minimum f/22 setting (2,800 lines). Lenses always lose resolution at very small apertures because light particles scatter as they pass through a narrow opening, so pictures look softer. But you might want to use f/16-22 for sunstars, as the lens is capable of crisp 22-point starbursts around small, bright highlights at these settings. Sony a7R IV, 160mm, f/8, 1/250-second, ISO 200 (Credit: Jim Fisher) One noteworthy positive is the impressive close-up capability. While you’ll get the closest focus at wideangle, you’ll get the highest subject magnification at telephoto, and with a decent working distance too. This is handy if you want to avoid disturbing skittish subjects. And as before, foundries would like to expand their capacities but still face a shortfall of 200mm equipment now and for the foreseeable future. In terms of design, the FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II features the standard white body of Sony’s telephoto lenses and an internal zoom mechanism which means the lens remains a single size.