Friday, April 9, 2010

AF 80-200mm f/2.8D revisited

Last weekend I had a chance to field test this lens while my daughter had a birthday party at the Bottle Tree Park, Singapore.


Spotted this kid trying to play with water while mummy bathed him. Took 2 shots, one at shorter focal length and this one. Nice...



While waiting for lunch took a few quick shots with intermediate distance subject and far background, to check out the bokeh of this lens. Not bad - careful composition can give pretty nice background blur. Satisfied.


One of the guru's at Clubsnap forum likes to shot cats. Well, there was a cat, so I took a few shots. Those shot at f/2.8 had nose and whiskers out-of-focus (OOF) when eyes are sharp. A quick check on the LCD meant using f/4 instead. Nice and sharp.

Other impressions:
  1. Lens not too heavy for prolonged use, maybe not for backpacking or mountaining, but certainly manageable for usual travel use.
  2. Sharpness in practical use at f/2.8 is good enough, unless there is side-by-side comparison I doubt if it is clear that there is some lost of sharpness.
Overall happy with this lens.

See earlier posting testing at the window.

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