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Canon 70-200 F4 L + Sony A7II REVIEW


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Finally finished my Review for the Canon 70-200 F4 L on the Sony A7II! Its packed full with images and a full 10 minutes Video Review covering adapters, autofocus test and more. So get some popcorn and beer and have a look 

 

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http://www.dsphotoblog.com/?p=736

 

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Thank you for your excellent review and video, drasko2015. After studying your review and Jordan Steele's Admiring Light I took the plunge and ordered the Canon 70-200 F/4 lens and a Viltrox adaptor.  The adaptor is worth its price even if it didn't auto-focus very well, but I'm pretty impressed with that too.  A smart adaptor is so much better that the cheaper dumb ones.  The camera and Lightroom recognize the lens data, including automatically setting the focal length for IBIS, which works quite well.  This Canon L lens is awesome, and even 1x1 crops from my A7M2 look sharp and colorful at F4 and up. The look of this great glass is spoiling me, and now I want more lenses that can give me a similar look.  I have a feeling this is going to get expensive!

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Thank you for your excellent review and video, drasko2015. After studying your review and Jordan Steele's Admiring Light I took the plunge and ordered the Canon 70-200 F/4 lens and a Viltrox adaptor.  The adaptor is worth its price even if it didn't auto-focus very well, but I'm pretty impressed with that too.  A smart adaptor is so much better that the cheaper dumb ones.  The camera and Lightroom recognize the lens data, including automatically setting the focal length for IBIS, which works quite well.  This Canon L lens is awesome, and even 1x1 crops from my A7M2 look sharp and colorful at F4 and up. The look of this great glass is spoiling me, and now I want more lenses that can give me a similar look.  I have a feeling this is going to get expensive!

 

Your welcome and thx for support! Canon has some of the best glass ever and prices are in a really good range compared to sony. We can only hope that the new FE lenses that are announced will be priced lower, but i wouldn´t bet on that.

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I'm new to the site and just saw this post.  I have that Canon 70-200 lens but haven't tried it on the Sony yet...I'm definitely going to have to try it out now!  I've only used it on my 7D.

definetly go for it, its such a great lens for the price 

 

make shure to read my mc11 adapter review, the canon works great with this adapter http://www.dsphotoblog.com/?p=1769 

 

love the results, here in a zoo http://www.dsphotoblog.com/?p=1884

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    • Thanks for the very useful information. The 16-55 tempts me, I can live with the absence of stabilisation, what holds me is the price tag. As always, there is not such a thing like a free lunch in life. The Sony gives performance at a reasonable size but with no stabilisation and higher price tag, the Zeiss is compact, stabilised and reasonably priced but lower performed, while the Tamron provides performance at very good price and stabilisation at the expense of bulkiness. 😀 All in all, I think I will give a try to the Tamron, once I have taken in my hands. Here are two cutouts taken close to the center of the picture. The sharper one is the kit zoom, the other is the 18-105 mm, at approximately the same lenght around 40 mm at /f 8. The difference is impressive and more impressive for me is that all the lenses in the shop had the same behaviour on two different cameras. At this point looks like a whole batch and not just a lens.  

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    • That's a pity and certainly doesn't match with my experience with the 18-105: mine is definately on par with the 16-50 kit lens (which on its own was as decent as I could expect from such a cheap lens). Sure, dont expect sharp corners especially wide open, but in the center my 18-105 left little to be desired across most of the zoom range. The 16-55 does beat it in every regard except zoom range though. The Tamron 17-70 trades blows with the 16-55 and might be the better choice in some cases. I went for the 16-55 because of the smaller size (I also found the 18-105 too bulky most of the time) and slightly wider FoV. My camera has a stabilized sensor so stabilized optics was no requirement for me. As you noted, I kept the 18-105 on my old A6000 for the occasional video project.
    • Thanks! The 18-105 mm /f4 was PERFECT lens for my needs but a HUGE disappointed. I bought it with the camera, then I brought it with me on a trip. To my disappointed, all pictures came out slightly blurred, like the lens was slightly out of focus. Stepping down was not solving the issue. The kit lens was definitely better, to my surprise. Thinking that I got a lemon, I went back to the shop where I bought It (luckily, I has bought both the camera and the lens in a brick and mortar store). We tested the lens on another camera and it was the same. Then we tested other copies of the same lens that the store had in stock and all showed the same lack if sharpness. All pictures slightly out of focus. In the end I returned the lens and used the money to buy other equipment. I must admit that it was a perfect lens for video but it is not what I use my camera for. Actually this was confirmed by the shop owner, most buyers of the 18-105 mm are interested in its video capabilities. I will have a look at the Tamron, the Sony 16-55 is almost double the price, at least here, so I will keep it out of the picture, at least for the time being. The Sigma also looks as an interesting option.  
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