External zoom supertelephotos just look so goofy to me. Internal zoom - This goes a long way for making the lens feel much more premium.
Moving past the optical qualities and its performance, there are a few other components to the lens that make it stand out. Photographed using the FE 1.4x teleconverter. Once they are in focus, they do an OK job with tracking as long as the subject is not too fast or too erratic. The autofocus’ time to acquire a subject begins to slow with the 1.4x attached, and comes to a crawl with the 2x. From a few different accounts, these teleconverters seem to have no negative effects while paired with the 400mm GM and 600mm GM lenses, and therefore I’m leaning to conclude that issues the 200-600mm has with these are on the lens side. The one caveat to that is when it comes to pairing it with the FE 1.4x or FE 2x teleconverters. I’m not sure I can recall a time where I thought to myself while using this lens, “This autofocus just isn’t keeping up!” I’ve seen my Sony cameras fail at picking up subjects or get lost trying to track something, but I’ve never pinpointed an autofocus issue squarely on the lens. If your subject is sitting still, a 1/60 s shutter speed while handheld isn’t asking too much from the gear that’s 10 times slower than that outdated rule. Instead, it’s replaced by shooting the shutter speed that matches your subject and your intent. With this lens, and especially paired with many Sony cameras that have in-body image stabilization too, the old shutter speed trick of “1 over your focal length” is utterly wrong. Handholding 600mm and the field of view that comes with it is asking quite a bit before the effects of stabilization kick in. XA lens elements are Sony’s key to bokeh nirvana in their top-of-the-line lenses, and yet with the 200-600mm missing them I‘m still plenty pleased with the results.
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This is not Sony’s best take on what a 200-600mm can be, otherwise it would be part of the G Master series and use the G Master-only XA (extreme aspherical) lens elements. The out of focus qualities of the 200-600mm is much better than it has any right to be. But not that much better, and that’s really impressive to me once you start to compare everything else between them. The overall sharpness of each lens is neck and neck, but I will give it to Canon for being able to resolve fine feather details better. The sharpness of that beast was off the charts, and yet I was swayed by the 200-600mm after testing it. An “excellent image” of course has many components, but when it comes down to the lens’ contribution to this I’m talking about the sharpness, resolving power, out of focus qualities, stabilization, and autofocus.īefore I bought the 200-600mm, I was a Canon shooter and owned a big white 500mm f/4L lens. Why am I happy with this lens, and why do I recommend anyone else interested in it buy this lens too? Because above all else, at the end of the day I’m coming home with excellent images.
First, let’s start with everything that I have enjoyed day in and day out in my constant use. That does not mean, however, that it is a lens without faults there are quite a few to be aware of that I will get into here. The Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS is quite literally the only lens I own, and until I win the lottery to move on to the FE 600mm f/4 GM, I don’t see that changing. Extensively may actually be too light of a word.
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