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Top portrait lens

Started Jan 5, 2017 | Polls thread
Mystery Gardener
Mystery Gardener Contributing Member • Posts: 838
Re: Top portrait lens
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hotdog321 wrote:

TyphoonTW wrote:

For conveniece I'd pick the 70-200 f2.8 mkII

For pure "rendering" I'd get the 135 f2 or the 200mm f2.8

+1. Yeah, I'd agree with this. For sheer flexibility and overall usefulness, the 70-200 f/2.8L IS II is hard to beat. But the bokeh is better on the other lenses if you are into that stuff.

One advantage I can think of is weight. The 135 f/2.0 USM L is 750 grams, whereas the 70-200 f/2.8L IS II is almost twice the weight at 1490 grams. As the Canon 5D4 is 890 grams with battery, the combo of 5D4 and 135 f/2.0 L only weighs a few grams more than the 70-200 lens does by itself. Also the 70-200 also costs approx 50% more than the 135 f/2.0 (but you get the versatility of a zoom plus IS with the 70-200).

Cheers, James

BTW, I have the 70-200 f/2.8L IS II (the only primes I have are 100L IS macro, the 180L macro and the TS-E 17mm) so it would be my choice by default

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