mbashor

Wondering if anyone knows if all the older L Series lenses will work on this camera? Have the new 70-200 f2.8 IS and older 16-35 f2.8 and 24-70 f2.8.
Thanks
Mike Bashor
Mainly a sports action and memory mate shooter. I know that the 5D MKIV is not the best camera for action photography,but am curious about the lense capability on it.

Japakomom Loc: Originally from the Last Frontier

If they are EF lenses then they will work.

Japakomom Loc: Originally from the Last Frontier

I shoot sports with my 5DIV and it does a great job!

Joe Blow

The 5D and any Canon EOS* camera will take any EF lens. That includes any "L" lens or regular lens. That includes the EF 70-200 f2.8L.

The 5D will not take EF-S or EF-M lenses. The EF-S will only fit on cropped cameras. *The EF-M are for the mirror-less cameras and EF lenses will not fit.

BB4A

Action photography is a very wide term, as is sports photography.

I regularly use my 5D Mk iv for both genres, and while I find it a little slower registering multiple images and buffering, compared to my 7D Mk ii and 1DX Mk ii, most of that slower response is because (a) the Mk iv supports 50% higher res, and (b) one processor, rather than the two in the other bodies. (b) is I believe the main reason why the other 2 bodies can shoot at 10FPS and above.

If that is a slight disadvantage for the 5D Mk iv, then consider as an advantage the camera is really good with action in lower light situations than the 7D Mk ii... and a lot cheaper than the 1DX Mk ii.

Horses for Courses; if you want excellent light range and a lot of extra pixels in a cheaper body, and do not need 10+FPS, then the 5D Mk ii is a great workhorse. Built like a tank (just like the other 2 bodies) and will last a long time. Here is an iPad pic of mine, with a new L lens and a couple of older EF USM primes... it likes them all.

davidrb Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel

I have and use an EF 500mm f/4.5L Canon lens, the original EF mount in a 500mm lens built in 1992. There are no problems at all. I will challenge your assumption of the ability of this camera to capture action. Granted, 7fps isn't in the same league as the 1-Dx but I paid twice as much for that as I did for my 5-D Mk IV. Many sports-shooting people acquire the 5-D Mk IV, add the EF 100-400mm zoom, park their 70-200mm lens and never look back. Watch TV sports and you will see that combination being used more often because of it's versatility. Can not recall any instance on the Hog of someone using this camera and being unsatisfied. In case you are interested I also use both 1.4 and 2.0 ply teleconverters on this lens/camera combination and experience no problems.

BB4A

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speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Yes, any EF-lens will work on that camera!

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Yep. Modern lenses may be faster, but any Canon EF lens (not EF-S or EF-M) will work. Off brand lenses may be questionable.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

All EF lenses ever made will work 100% with no loss of functions or features on all EOS cameras wether they are film or digital.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

Selene03

Most of my lenses are newer models because I have only been using Canon the last 3-4 years. However, I have a couple of older lenses. Any EF lens will work on the 5 d mk iv. The older lenses are great. As others have said, any EF lens should work on the camera including the three you mentioned above.

billnourse Loc: Bloomfield, NM

Lenses will work. The 5d Mk 4 is not the best sports camera because it is limited to 7 FPS, but it is very capable. In low light situations, such as high school stadium lighting, it makes up for it slower frame rate by being head and shoulders above the 7D MII for low light capability, MP, and dynamic range.

Bill

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

All Canon EF lenses ever made will work fine on 5DIV.

Older third party lenses sometimes don't work with newer cameras... but it sounds as if all yours are OEM, so no worries! If there are old lens/new camera issues with third party lenses, it's almost always electronic incompatibilities (sometimes the third party manufacturer has a fix... sometimes they don't).

The biggest "problem" with older OEM lenses is that they may be difficult to get serviced or repaired. For example, the EF 200mm f/1.8L was no longer serviceable by Canon just a year or two after it was discontinued. And because replacement parts were no longer available, independent shops had difficulty with AF system repairs on that particular lens. Another example, just last month Canon Professional Services told me they no longer service my 300mm f/2.8L IS (1999, superseded by the "II" in 2011... I'm afraid to ask about some of my other lenses... and I'm looking for a good independent repairer, instead).

I don't know for certain, but if they're the first versions it's possible your lenses might already have been "sunsetted" by Canon.

The 16-35mm f/2.8L was introduced in 2001, superseded by the "II" in 2007 and again by the "III" in 2016. The 16-35mm f/4L with IS was introduced in 2014.

EF 24-70mm f/2.8L was introduced in 2002 and superseded by the "II" in 2012. The smaller f/4L version with IS was also introduced in 2012.

The 70-200mm f/2.8L IS was introduced in 2001 and superseded by the "II" in 2010.

But they're all still great lenses and will work fine on newer cameras.

5DIV should be just fine for sports... 7 frames per second is plenty fast (and a lot faster than some older cameras I used for sports in the past, especially film cameras in the 1970s and 1980s!). The AF system of the 5DIV is also up to the task, essentially the same as what's used in the 1DX II (the "best" sports camera Canon makes). The primary difference is that the 1D-series models (and the 7D-series) use a separate chip to drive the AF system, which makes them a tad faster and a bit better tracking movement than other Canon models - including 5DIV - that share AF operation with the main processor that's also handling images and other tasks. But, in spite of their "short-comings", I somehow managed to shoot a lot of sports with 10D, 30D, 50D and even sometimes 5D Mark II (with a MUCH more primitive AF compared to 5DIV).

The only "problem" with it and reason that I prefer a crop-sensor rather than full frame camera for sports actually has a lot more to do with the lenses I use upon it, than the camera itself. For sports I now mostly use a pair of 7D Mark II because the croppers allow me to work with shorter, smaller, lighter lenses: 135mm f2 instead of 200mm f/2; 200mm f/2.8 instead of 300mm f/2.8; $1500 300mm f/4 and $2000 100-400mm zoom instead of $9000 500mm f/4, $11,000 200-400mm f/4L 1.4X zoom or $11,500 600mm f/4! As a result I'm a lot more mobile (and a lot less broke). With the crop cameras I can mostly shoot hand held, instead of needing a tripod or at least a monopod such as are likely to be necessary with the bigger telephotos.

Oh, and the 30MP images of 5DIV might be a wee bit of overkill for sports. 20MP from 7DII and 1DXII is more than enough for the vast majority of uses of sports images. But, hey, better too much than too little!

willaim Loc: Sunny Southern California

Yes it will. As long as they are EF mounts.