Supertelephoto lenses are tremendously useful, but they can also be quite expensive. If you are willing to sacrifice having a super-wide maximum aperture, Canon's RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 IS USM lens offers a lot of the flexibility of a supertelephoto lens without the stratospheric price. This great video review takes a look at the lens and the sort of performance and image quality you can expect from it in usage.
Coming to you from Jan Wegener, this excellent video review takes a look at the Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 IS USM lens. At $1,899, the 200-800mm f/6.3-9 is quite reasonable priced and comes with a nice feature set, including:
- Minimum Focusing Distance: 2.62 ft (80 cm) at 200mm, 9.19 ft (2.8 m) at 800mm
- Maximum Magnification: 0.25x at 200mm, 0.2x at 800mm
- 17 elements in 11 groups
- 3 UD lenses
- Super Spectra Coating
- 95mm filter
- 9 aperture blades for smoother bokeh
- 5.5 stops of image stabilization
- Nano USM autofocus motor
- Focusing/Control Ring with selector switch
- Weather-resistant design
- Rotating tripod collar
Altogether, the 200-800mm f/6.3-9 looks like a very nice performer for the price, particularly when you consider the high-ISO performance of modern cameras and what good noise reduction software can do. Check out the video above for Wegener's full thoughts on the lens.
If they had made it to the EF parameters, is it correct to say that we could have put a booster on this lens to get an additional f-stop on a crop sensor? Could there be a booster on this lens for the MFT sensor that gains two stops? Just curious.
The title of this post is "A review of the Canon...."
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It's in the video at the top of the article.
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That's funny.
Dude missed the whole video with review literally right after the title 🤭🤣
Nice to see affordable, high-quality long glass available for more cameras (I have the also excellent Nikon 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR lens) making wildlife photography more accessible to more people!
Agreed.
This lens won't replace my 100-500L and, alas, I've gone to Nikon for my 800mm needs. But for anyone unable/unwilling to pay the ransom for exotic primes (which is...90%+ of all photographers?), this lens is an excellent addition to their kit.