New Member Registered: June, 2017 Posts: 15
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| | Review Date: October 19, 2021 | Recommended | Price: $100.00
| Rating: N/A |
| Pros: | Fast 200mm | | Cons: | Fast 200mm Heavy - so a one-trick pony | | Sharpness: 8
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: P3
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The reson to get a 200mm F2.8 is portraits - you narrow down the background and so can get fantastic bokeh outside a studio with great subject separation,.
Best used where you have a long background area, and balanced on a monopod - this lens is heavy. Mine cost 70 Euros in italy - it was an impulse buy on a holiday from a shop with "new-old" stock....a bargain as this is all metal with a very high build quality.
The area of the lens is near enough 40cm2 - so there is massive opportunity for internal reflections,so either:
[1] embrace it and go for a soft pastel portrait.
[2] fit a longer lens hood (the pullout one is way to short) - I use one of those three-step fold-out rubber ones.
As you expect, the lens performs with far higher contrast at F5.6 - but then you would now be using an inexpensive 80-200mm AF lens at a fraction of the weight and cost of a F2.8 200mm prime.
So if you want to shoot full length portraits with a great art effect - this lens, or others like them, are a great buy. Closer than several metres the DoF is very shallow - so almost too narrow for portrait work. So for face or upper body portraits, a 135mm prime is more convienient, and a fraction of the weight and cost. For landscapes, a 80-200 zoom makes ore sense - especially with macro facilities.
If you don't do much of that sort of work - look elsewhere! If you like this idea - then check out the cost of 200mm F2.8 zooms and primes - and you quckly see than finding a secondhand fast 200mm is the way to go. If this is your work - the Nikon F2.0 AF IS Z-mount 200mm is just wonderful - but at $6,000 it should be !!!
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New Member Registered: December, 2016 Location: North Germany Posts: 1 | | Review Date: December 8, 2016 | Recommended | Price: $30.00
| Rating: 7 |
| Pros: | good IQ, reasonable sharp, well and compact built | | Cons: | bad IQ against the light | | Sharpness: 8
Aberrations: 8
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 7
Value: 7
Camera Used: K5
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I owned this lens a few years ago and did much comparisons to my other tele lenses. The sharpness ist good but not outstanding. Against the light every image was blurry and foggy. It needs a LONG lens hood, then it works.
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