I have to agree with when it comes to portraits and other static shots. The results do depend on camera to subject and subject to background distances.
I imagine there will be photographers who choise the 200mm f2 for a variety of their own reasons.
This focal length/fast aperture combination lends itself heavily to sports or fast moving subjects - but you can’t dictate what a gear choices a photograpger makes for what purpose.
GabrielPhoto wrote: pasblues wrote:
Both the Laowa and Sigma are simply magic for sports photographers. I only have the Siggy - but Laowa looks super promising. I also have the Nikkor 200mm f2 VRII which is stellar though I've only coupled it with a D850 and not a D5 or D6.
This gear advancement is far beyond static portraits - it's making real changes for fast-paced image making in the pro market. What a great time to be alive as a photographer. Focus breathing is a worthwhile topic but it's far less important to me than if the lenses can focus track and don't require a monopod to lug to the game fields.
For me as long as at full body shots distance I get no breathing then I am fine since for closer shots I prefer my 85mm 1.2
Happy times indeed!
PS looks like nobody has tried the EF version yet.
