Considered one of the essential ‘trinity’ zooms, 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses are favoured by professional and enthusiast photographers for wideranging shooting scenarios. They’re great for sports, wildlife, wedding and event photography, and more besides. The combination of a telephoto zoom range and fairly fast, constant aperture enables quick shutter speeds for freezing the action, and a tight depth of field for blurring the background.
There’s no escaping the fact that wide apertures need relatively large-diameter lens elements, so 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses tend to be quite hefty, usually tipping the scales at about 1.5kg. As such, they tend to come complete with tripod mounting rings, for balanced shooting on a tripod or monopod.
If you’re willing to limit your aperture aspirations to f/4, Nikon and Tamron offer 70-200mm or 70-210mm lenses respectively,…