Sony 70-200mm F2.8 GM II review at SonyAlphaBlog: “establishing new standards for Sony zoom”

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Marc from SonyAlphaBlog tested the new 70-200mm GMII lens and concluded:

The Sony 70-200mm F2.8 GM II (3000 Our) is establishing new standards for Sony zoom. It is largely better in almost all aspects compared to the Sony 70-200mm F2.8 GM (2800 euros), the Tamron 35-150mm F2-F2.8 Di III VXD (1800 euros) and the Tamron 70-180mm F2.8 Di III VXD (1200 euros)

In Summary

  • Excellent to Outstanding sharpness
  • Super light and extremely well balanced on Sony bodies (centre of gravity near the body)
  • Constant length design
  • Extremely complete ergonomics : Aperture ring (click or clickless) , Full time DMF, focus limiter, panning mode….
  • Super fast , precise and silent AF with a hitrate close to 100% and unleashing the full 30fps of the Sony A1
  • Super smooth background blur and very good bokeh balls
  • Excellent color rendition
  • Excellent behavior in video
  • Very good behavior with TC : minor loss of sharpness on TC1.4 and moderate on TC2.0, same AF
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