Lens Reccomendation

Canon 80-200 F2.8 Magic Drain Pipe or Canon 70-200 F4 L IS

I paid the extra for the Canon 70-200 f 2.8 L iii
Bear in mind its heavy lens 3.26 lbs and worth the extra effort and money.

Canon 70-200 f/4 L IS.
One of Canon’s best over the years.

LarryM wrote in post #19217729
Canon 80-200 F2.8 Magic Drain Pipe or Canon 70-200 F4 L IS

Entirely depends on usage. If you're trying to freeze rapid motion in low light, F2.8 has the only advantage.

For nearly everything else, the F4L IS is better (that IS is pretty good and makes up for the stop of light if not trying to freeze rapid motion in low light and steadies the FOV for composition).

Of course, price matters too.

Very best,

The are both excellent lenses, although I'm personally a huge fan of the Magic Drainpipe, which I still consider one of the best zooms ever made, in terms of sheer IQ, it resolved all the 42MP of my Sony A7RIII without breaking a sweat when I was using it adaped.
Although it's built like a tank (a real "heavy metal" lens), a lot of the samples suffer for breakdowns in the focus limiter/MF switch, so that is a thing to be taken into consideration.
AF is pretty noisy and of course not as fast as USM lenses (but not slow overall).

If you plan to use it also for portraits, I'd go for the Magic Drainpipe, otherwise I think that the 70-200 F4 IS is a "safer" bet.