Post #2494478

I have my permitted auto ISO range set to 100 through 3200. I find that anything above 3200 produces a result that's grainy enough to annoy me, which is probably a result of my smaller sensor (read: being cheap). I always have stabilization enabled. I concur on the zoom tightness ring as well. I have no use case for such a thing whatsoever. Even at its tightest it's not quite enough to keep the lens barrel from getting slowly bounced into its extended position if you have your camera danging from your neck while e.g. hiking, and I would much prefer it to have a lock for the fully retracted position like the smaller Canon zooms do. Possibly suitably upsized, as appropriate. That position would be *much* more useful as a second actual control ring. Maybe there was some mechanical reason a hypothetical second control ring could not have been added in front of the zoom ring as well, but I'd really doubt it. Perhaps this is what we get for the 200-800 still not being an "L" lens. At least it came with a hood and a strap.