Smaller and lighter than anything else that came before as a 200 f2, impressive.
Interesting that Laowa has taken this approach and in all honesty I'm very interested in replacing my 100-500 with it. That sounds a bit crazy I think I hear many of you say, but reality is this lens on the R5ii is going to offer a "crazy" level of crop options, all the way potentially to 400 f4 in post ie a 4k crop @4096, certainly the in-camera 200 f2 and 320 3.2 are going to provide far more subject isolation at a reasonable distance and match the 100-300 2.8, if not quite the same level of iq obviously, but at 1/10 of the price, yes 1/10 and 50% of the weight and a stop faster too. It becomes increasingly interesting if the new R7ii comes along soon too with around 30mp, which might work really well as a two body set-up with the R5ii.
Long term, might others follow this path and revert to EF mount and adapter, if Laowa can achieve it, at a cheaper cost as well than the native Sony E and Nikon Z, then surely Viltrox and Sigma/Tamron must be able to as well.
All in all, a very encouraging move by Laowa and I hope they come with many more EF af options now they have it apparently sorted.
If Canon does announce the 300-600 4-5.6, this laowa 200 f2 and the 300-600 will make a very interesting tele duo.
Interesting that Laowa has taken this approach and in all honesty I'm very interested in replacing my 100-500 with it. That sounds a bit crazy I think I hear many of you say, but reality is this lens on the R5ii is going to offer a "crazy" level of crop options, all the way potentially to 400 f4 in post ie a 4k crop @4096, certainly the in-camera 200 f2 and 320 3.2 are going to provide far more subject isolation at a reasonable distance and match the 100-300 2.8, if not quite the same level of iq obviously, but at 1/10 of the price, yes 1/10 and 50% of the weight and a stop faster too. It becomes increasingly interesting if the new R7ii comes along soon too with around 30mp, which might work really well as a two body set-up with the R5ii.
Long term, might others follow this path and revert to EF mount and adapter, if Laowa can achieve it, at a cheaper cost as well than the native Sony E and Nikon Z, then surely Viltrox and Sigma/Tamron must be able to as well.
All in all, a very encouraging move by Laowa and I hope they come with many more EF af options now they have it apparently sorted.
If Canon does announce the 300-600 4-5.6, this laowa 200 f2 and the 300-600 will make a very interesting tele duo.
