AFS 70-200mm/2.8 FL E - first impressions

[Roland Vink]

Lens Rentals MTF Tests:
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2016/11/nikon-70-200mm-f2-8e-fl-ed-af-s-vr-mtf-tests/
The new lens measures better than the old version and also the Canon 70-200 IS II

[MFloyd]

Finally, decided to purchase the 70-200mm f/2.8E FL. Should arrive tomorrow. By the way, it will my first purchase of a lens belonging to the Holy Trinity 😉

[golunvolo]

First Futsal game covered and boy, for the first 10~15 min I was lost with the controls... One thing is thinking about them, other is doing as second nature, in the heat of the action.
But after those horrifying looooonnnng minutes, things started to get natural, and at the end I was not thinking at all to zoom in-out, or to quickly correct focus. Not yet tried the focus memory, thought.

IQ is brilliant, AF speed from outside of this world, VR more than capable, contrast spectacular, and very, very flare resistant. The zoom ring is so smooth, that seems not to be connected...
Did everything handheld, and in fact the foot does not only help as a hand support, but acts, as a perfect platform to control the lens.
All in all, a piece of joy, that you don't want to put it down.

  My experience is the same except with dancers instead. Formidable lens

[MFloyd]

First pictures with the new lens.  As always, with my on hand model, the English Bulldog .... At 120 mm f/2.8

[CS]

Both are keepers, the lens and the dog!