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Are you happy with your Canon RF 70-200 2.8?

Started Mar 28, 2022 | Discussions thread
ProDude Senior Member • Posts: 4,851
Re: Are you happy with your Canon RF 70-200 2.8?

Croomrider wrote:

ProDude wrote:

Croomrider wrote:

To get that kind of bokeh with the 70-200 f2.8 you need to shoot it wide open at over 150mm. It will never compare to primes that are 2+ stops faster at 50 or 85mm.

If you've been at this for a good number of years you'd know better then to make such a statement. I'm not saying I wouldn't tend to go for a 50 f1.2 or a 85 f1.2 at times just for convenience alone. But if one has the ability/luxury of adjusting their subject distance and also accounting for any background distance involved, with some care it can easily enough be done. With that and a RF70-200 f2.8 you can wipe out the background if that's one's goal. This whole argument/discussion regarding bokeh and how to achieve it is really getting old. But I suppose it's the internet and we should expect it. Somebody needs to do more homework apparently.

I was assuming other factors being the same not that you can't get good results at all. You can't expect to get the same bokeh with an f2.8 zoom at the same focal length as a prime which is 2 stops faster.

That is absolutely correct. I was merely mentioning it's "possible" to get a desired end result in many ways with many lenses. Just easier with a fast one.

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