Finally, my lens 70-200 4.0L USM has arrived. At this moment I have waited a long time, but the waiting has been worthwhile at the end. The lens is simply cool. This applies both to the body, as well as for the quality of the images. I have already shot some photos and am very pleased with the quality of the images. I’m able now to photograph wild animals without intrude into their privacy and still make good pictures. In addition, I can now make good portrait photos. Thanks to the constant 4.0 aperture value when photographing a person I’m getting really well blured background. The sharpness is very high, so I don’t need to do use photoshop for the most images to adjust the sharpness. Sure, if you use a kamera with this lens without a tripod, it is fairly difficult to avoid the moving unshaprness, but you could train this. If the weather is good, you can also the exposure time to minimum, thus helping to minimize the moving unsharpness.
I noticed, the lens has a switch that should be in the right position, depending on on a minimum distance (1.2 meters) or a distance more than 3 meters. This is not particularly useful, since I always forget, to switch it, but I can live with.
I hope that I find time today to fill out the cash-back form and send it to Canon. Thus, I can save a further 50 euros.
I have big plans with this lens that I simply do not know where to start. My greatest wish is to make a photo from a beautiful bird in flight. I’m sure, it will be not a easy task, because this lens is without a stabilizer. I think I take the weekend in order to make those photo. I hope that the weather will be sunny soon, because with thet weather, what we have today, it will be very difficult to use short exposure. If the weather will be bad, I try to photograph my friends in a self-made studio at home.
