[Klaus]

https://photozone.smugmug.com/Japan-2024

We went to Hiroshima, Shikoku Island (most of the trip) and Kanazawa.

[Rover]

Beautiful as ever, Klaus, especially the temples and temple gardens (in my opinion).
Only one shot from the 70-200 though?

[Klaus]

Beautiful as ever, Klaus, especially the temples and temple gardens (in my opinion).
Only one shot from the 70-200 though?

Yeah, I also expected to use it more, but I didn't see many opportunities.
Japan is a very humid country with lots of haze - so long-distance shots to compress a scene aren't usually worth it - and for the rest, the 20-70mm was sufficient.
I do have more shots taken with the 70-200 in my stock, but they were a bit ... uninspired.

As mentioned, I will probably sell it.

[Rover]

I hope that doesn't leave you without a tele lens altogether?
Of course everyone is different, for me the 16-35 + 100-400 combo is the go-to two-lens setup.
I've learned about heat haze the hard way though - last October, when visiting Primorye I've shot a lot of beautiful shots over the sea when venturing to a distant island... Or, to be precise, they would have been beautiful but ended up right in the Recycled Bin because upon close examination, all were ruined by the haze over the sea. Never had it nearly as bad before in all 20+ years of shooting the various stuff.

[Klaus]

I still have the 200-600G :-), and primes so the lack of a 70-200/4 won't kill me ;-)

I guess the story about the 70-200/4 applies to all of them - very nice optically but what are they actually good for? I was hoping that the lower weight would make a difference, but it didn't - for me at least.

[Rover]

IDK, I was often thinking of selling my 70-200/2.8 for the f/4 IS since I almost never use it at f/2.8 anyway. Then decided that since my 70-200 is so old - it's the first IS version, and has suffered innumerable repairs over the 16.5 years of service - I would not be able to sell it anyway (short of giving it away for free), so I'd rather not complain about the weight and just carry on shootin'. It still does perform well even on a high-MP full frame body, need I point out (I think it wasn't tested on FF here... was it?)