Canon EF 70-200mm F/4L USM Review

The Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM is among the top notch camera lenses in the L series produced by Canon. This lens has got good optical qualities and is also build to professional standards.

An overview of the features that this lens offers gives a good impression and would be an interesting camera lens to use. The design and the way the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM is built is quite impressive. This is because the lenses are solidly built but they are relatively light. The solid body ensures that the lenses are compact and look good while the light weight ensures that the lenses are easily portable. All these are qualities of a good camera lens and thus should give you a good first impression.

The Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM measures about 172mm in length and the diameter is about 76mm. This is quite narrow considering the length, but it is a good thing in the sense that makes it easier to carry. The narrow nature of the lenses also ensures that handling is better and easier especially for those people with small hands. When it comes to image quality, the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM produces images that are commendable. These images are especially impressive when viewing them from a monitor.

The lenses produces very sharp images when wide open and still improves slightly when stopped down to the wide end of the focal length. The colour that the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM has is great considering the size of the lens. There is also good background and foreground blur quality which is also commendable. One thing however, is that, the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM is not a low light lens and you would have to use flash when shooting indoors when the sun has already set. This lens is also user friendly and using it is also very easy.

One thing that you will take note of is that the lens focuses very accurately in a quiet and very fast manner. This is a quality that most camera lenses not only of the same quality but other more powerful lenses lack. The lens uses the Ring USM which has an Ultrasonic motor in order to achieve the excellent focusing features. This is a technology that is very advanced and Canon has taken full advantage of it. It is also worthy to note that the front element neither rotates nor extends during focusing and zooming.

It remains static. It is also good to note that the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM is compatible with most Canon extenders. This is a plus to the lenses as most of the other Canon L series are not compatible to a majority of Canon extenders. Generally the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM is a good quality camera lens that produces good quality images and is very user friendly. Definitely a recommended type of camera lenses.