https://pho.tography.org/tags/sports/ Recent content in sports on pho.tography.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/canon-r3--rf-70-200mm-f/2.8l-pro-standard/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/canon-r3--rf-70-200mm-f/2.8l-pro-standard/ The 70-200mm f/2.8 is the most universally deployed professional zoom in photography. Wedding photographers, sports shooters, photojournalists, commercial photographers — across every discipline requiring reach and light-gathering in a single optic, some version of this lens has been on the camera. Canon’s RF version, redesigned for the mirrorless mount, is the current benchmark for the category. The RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM shrinks the physical footprint of its EF predecessor significantly — the retractable design reduces the barrel length at 70mm to a degree that initially reads as implausible for an f/2. https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/canon-r7--ef-70-200mm-f/4l-reach-without-ruin/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/2026/04/12/canon-r7--ef-70-200mm-f/4l-reach-without-ruin/ The arithmetic of cropped sensors and telephoto glass is one of the more useful free lunches in photography. The Canon R7 — a serious APS-C body with genuinely professional-grade autofocus and a 32.5-megapixel sensor — transforms the EF 70-200mm f/4L into a 112–320mm equivalent. A zoom range that, on full frame, would require an expensive, heavier f/2.8 lens or a dedicated super-telephoto prime. Here it arrives via a quarter-century-old zoom that trades used for well under $600.