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My take on the RF 70-200 F4 Locked

Started Feb 16, 2021 | User reviews
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Flash Cube New Member • Posts: 23
Re: My take on the RF 70-200 F4

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate this lens. But that being said, it could have been so much more. If you are pairing it with the RF 24-105 f4, you are really only buying 95mm of extra reach. Canon could have made this lens revolutionary in the market buy making if a 70-300 f4L. It’s certainly possible with the larger mount and larger glass of RF, and not to mention their ES 70-300 is already a f4-5.6. When the manufacturers came out with the larger mounts, it was with the promise of new possibilities, instead they churn out identical lenses  (mostly) as what they had before. The mfrs all treat the 70-300 as the red headed stepchild, but yet they ALL make them. 70-300 lenses make for a great sports shooting length as well as a not terribly large travel lens with great range. The 70-200 f2.8 makes for a great indoor and low light lens, but outdoors it just becomes too small, hence the value of having a 70-300 f4L. Sorry if this sounds rantish, I just wish the mfrs would move on from two decade old set in stone formulas for lenses.

SteveinLouisville
SteveinLouisville Senior Member • Posts: 1,586
I like it too.

A bit oversized for some applications, but I can't say anything but good things about the IQ. Here are a couple shot at f4.0, one at 70mm and the other at 200mm.

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Ahgre
Ahgre Regular Member • Posts: 184
Re: My take on the RF 70-200 F4

Flash Cube wrote:

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate this lens. But that being said, it could have been so much more. If you are pairing it with the RF 24-105 f4, you are really only buying 95mm of extra reach. Canon could have made this lens revolutionary in the market buy making if a 70-300 f4L. It’s certainly possible with the larger mount and larger glass of RF, and not to mention their ES 70-300 is already a f4-5.6. When the manufacturers came out with the larger mounts, it was with the promise of new possibilities, instead they churn out identical lenses (mostly) as what they had before. The mfrs all treat the 70-300 as the red headed stepchild, but yet they ALL make them. 70-300 lenses make for a great sports shooting length as well as a not terribly large travel lens with great range. The 70-200 f2.8 makes for a great indoor and low light lens, but outdoors it just becomes too small, hence the value of having a 70-300 f4L. Sorry if this sounds rantish, I just wish the mfrs would move on from two decade old set in stone formulas for lenses.

Yeah and that is called 100-500 L

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Flash Cube New Member • Posts: 23
Re: My take on the RF 70-200 F4

Yes, because nothing says travel zoom and moderately priced sports zoom like the RF 100-500.

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