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Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM Super Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
This high-performance lens was designed with portability and handling ease in mind. One Super UD-glass element, whose characteristics are similar to fluorite, and one UD-glass element result in sharp pictures from corner-to-corner. The lens also has a built-in hood and a detachable tripod mount.
Product Features
- Lens construction: 7 elements in 6 groups.
- Fluorite and Ultra-low Dispersion-glass; internal focusing; full-time manual focus.
- Closest Focusing Distance: 3.5m / 11.5 ft.
- Focal Length & Maximum Aperture: 400mm 1:5.6
- Filter size: 77mm
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you would expect excellent focus and you get that along with a beautiful … I bought this lens one year ago and have taken 1000s of photos with it. For the price, you would expect excellent focus and you get that along with a beautiful bokeh. It is light enough to handhold with some practice. It does not have IS and I have not found this to be a problem, just use enough shutter speed. I like 1/800 for small birds.Why not buy the Canon 100-400 and get a zoom range? I read several reviews and have talked with Flickr friends who have bought the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM and it is not nearly as sharp. One Flickr friend bought this lens and just couldn’t get a sharp enough photo to use. He even sent it into Canon for repairs and it is still, in his opinion, unuseable. I got the 400mm f5.6L for the long end. I have other lenses for photos that take less reach that are smaller and easier to use.At F5.6, the lens is rather slow and needs a lot of light. But to get a quicker lens, you go to about $10,000 and a much heavier lens you…
A Lens That Will Increase Your Skill Level I just got this lens a little more than a week…perhaps not long enough to give you a decent review. Having said that I want to tell you of my first impression to perhaps prepare you for this lens.In terms of previous telephoto experience…I use a 70-200mm f/4L IS USM coupled with a 1.4 II Extender for my bird in flight (BIF) shots. So I have shot up to 280mm. To prepare for deciding whether to get this lens, I turned off IS and shot a bunch of pictures at sunset light level…BIF still turn out pretty decent. So Non-IS is not an issue. I went ahead and ordered this lens…like most BIF shooters, I do not have enough reach.I got this lens via UPS…it was delivered at 6pm, half an hour before dark where I live. Not enough time to go to the bird reserve to shoot so I started shooting in front of my house to test it out. Shaking with excitement, I started to snap at various still objects, people walking about. First impression was the lens is a lot…
Canon 400mm f/5.6L Telephoto Lens I purchased this lens primarily for hand-held bird photography for use on my Canon 40D DSLR. The lens is typical of Canon’s L-series “white” family of professional level telephoto lenses, having very high standards of construction and superb optical performance, even with a 1.4X teleconverter, when conditions allow.This lens is known as the “overlooked” Canon telephoto, since it does not garner the glamor of its cousins, the really long, heavy, faster, and vastly more costly professional telephoto lenses. It is also known as the “toy lens” by bird photographers who mostly use those really Big Berthas for long-distance close-ups with blurred-out backgrounds.I selected it for the high image quality wide-open, relatively light weight, and shorter physical length, allowing both hand-held and tripod mounted use, as well as its modest cost (compared to all high quality alternatives). The image quality is extremely high, even wide open at f/5.6, although it does…