CANON 70-200L scarlet AI eos mount

[JamminJG]

I have the canon 100-400 and the ti canon mount on the way. that's why i went with ti. However, i think i'll still need support. not a lens i believe i'll use much, but i am all about versatility!

[Casey Green]

By the way, anyone with an Al Canon mount that wants to sell it to upgrade to the Titanium, please PM me. I'm looking to buy the Al version.

[Curtis Stanton]

What do you mean image shift?

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthr...5-Impressions)

Basically in order for the small motors in AF lenses to move the focusing elements in the lens at speed they need to have an inherent amount of play. If they are too tight the tiny motors will not be able to focus much faster than you can manually. This looseness means that when you change direction on the focus ring the image actually moves slightly, usually left to right but sometimes up and down too. On a small screen this doesn't always seem like such a big deal but on a 40' projection screen it's incredibly jarring and distracting. Things get even worse with the two 24-70 zooms, both quite good optically, but because the front ocular bells both telescope out of the main body, because of this they are prone not just to image shift while focusing but also zooming or just from the normal movement and bumps of the camera.

[Pete Lutz]

how do you find the build quality on that lens support?

It's not the beefiest lens support I've seen, but it's ample for the Canon 70-200. It's actually more solid than I thought it would be, it's well pretty well made. PM me if you want some better pictures of it, I'd be happy to email you some.

[Sam Edwards]

I have that lens, and I use the x easy riser, LW 15mm Bracket and an inexpensive lens support I found on ebay, I already had some 15mm rods. I needed most of that stuff for my follow focus, so it wasn't that big of an investment for the one lens.

Hi Pete,
Thanks for the suggestion. I just ordered one.
Cheers,
Sam

[Ivan Kovax]

Yeh... I have hung this lens all day off my epic the other day, handheld too. Didn't worry me once. Well made mounts. The titanium mount has a double lock mechanism which will hold anything in place (within reason), and I am assuming the aluminium will have the same, however for safety it is always best to have support for larger lenses ...

One thing to watch out for - some ACs on that shoot were a little slow to learn... they tried grabbing and lifting the camera via the lens and the handle a few times...

hth

Ivan

[Sunny Jhooty]

It's not the beefiest lens support I've seen, but it's ample for the Canon 70-200. It's actually more solid than I thought it would be, it's well pretty well made. PM me if you want some better pictures of it, I'd be happy to email you some.

pm sent

[Michael Zeleny]

Not to hijack the thread, is anyone using this lens for a run and gun application?

[Marc Berger]

Not to hijack the thread, is anyone using this lens for a run and gun application?

Yes, and its a fantastic lens for it. AF in still mode works with it very well ("point and shoot") , IS works great too. I have the AL mount and its sturdy and I doubt Canon made such a great mount themselves in the EOS EF camera history. Anyway I never saw a better one and I owned a lot of Canon EOS EF cameras. The Red AL with its double locking holds securely heavier lenses then the 70-200 without lens support (Keep in mind its always more secure to use a lens support, but not always necessary ).
One more good reason for run and gun with this lens is the diameter for screw in filters: 77mm. This filter size is easy to find around the globe and not to expensive to buy.

[Trevor Meeks]

By the way, anyone with an Al Canon mount that wants to sell it to upgrade to the Titanium, please PM me. I'm looking to buy the Al version.

I'll trade you my AL for your Ti