Best I've owned so far | Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

BEST LENS I OWN | Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

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	• Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras Canon Canon average customer review:based on 84 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Dohn git mutch bettor!!!!!!!! Best lens I've ever used...bar none!

I've stayed away from bird photography for many, many years because my lenses hadn't had the reach this 100-400 does. But besides that, the quality of my lenses didn't match that of this baby. It truly stands by itself as a wildlife lens. There are longer ones, priced close to a king's ransom, but for portability and razor sharp exposures, it stands alone. It focuses fast and sure. Coupled with my 20D -- my friend has one on his 30D -- it is a surefire combo.

Best I've owned so far

This lens is amazing. I've had it for about 5 or 6 months now and have hauled it all over the place with me. I use it mainly for bird and wildlife photography. The lens is fast, quiet, built like a tank and very sharp. I haven't had to touch Photoshop's unsharp mask or smart sharpen tool for images taken with this lens. There are only two things I don't like about this lens. 1. It weighs a freakin ton! Get a monopod and carry it over your shoulder unless you want sore arms! 2. It is an ugly white color. The only up side to this is that most non-photographers think you are a pro when you walk around with this bad boy. However, you can buy a lens coat in a variety of colors and patterns to help your lens blend into the environment a little better.

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BEST LENS I OWN

I've spent the past year or so drooling over this lens and my wife (I'll love her always) surprised me by buying this lens for my birthday. I absolutely love this lens. It has changed my life and completely upgraded the quality of my images. I love every image that comes from this lens. I've even saved the very first image that I've taken with this lens. Almost nothing is out of reach or too far these days. It focuses fast and very, very accurate. The mechanics of the push pull character of the lens takes some getting use to. But so does a Ferrari when you have been driving a Ford Pinto. Put short, the lens is worth every stinking nickel that you will spend on it. I wish that I could upload some images that I've taken with this lens as proof but I can't figure out how to do that. Trust me, the lens is great beyond measure.

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Not perfect, but excellent nonetheless

Good points about this lens:

1) It is the cheapest long lens with image stabilization you can get.

2) It is flexible (100-400mm zoom range)

3) Image quality of a good copy is superb on a cropped frame digital camera such as the Digital Rebel series. A good copy is decent on a full-frame camera.

4) It is light enough to carry, and you CAN use it handheld in reasonably bright light. Image quality from a tripod is better, of course.

Bad points about the lens:

1) It seems to have variable image quality between different copies. Some copies aren't as good as mine is (believe me, I don't say that about all my lenses!). My suspicion is that newer copies are on average better than old ones. Check out whichever copy you get while you can still return it.

2) Image quality drops a bit on a full-frame camera if you don't stop down at least one stop (to f/8 or f/11) and preferably back off slightly from 400mm to 370 or so. Image quality from 100mm to 250mm is as good as my prime lenses in that range.

3) It's a reasonably portable lens for it's focal length, but the size and white color will still draw unwanted attention from civilians, who will all ask if you work for National Geographic.

4) The "trombone" style of changing focal length is a bit gawky, and more important it does draw dust inside the lens. My copy (4 years old) has speckles of dust all over the INSIDE of the front element, unlike any other lens I own.

5) The image stabilization doesn't function reliably on a tripod. Canon recommends you turn of stabilization in that situation (and you'll get a better-quality image off a tripod for sure).

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A Superb Piece of Glass and Engineering

First a plug for Amazon where I typically buy almost all of my gear. Great prices, excellent, courteous and fast customer service and if you have Amazon PRIME shipping, you get it either in 2 days with FREE shipping or overnight if you really need it fast at only $3.99 shipping (often near end of the week, that goes down to only $1.99 for one-day shipping!). PRIME is the way to go, it's paid for itself several times over in our household and we'll renew it every year. I purchased my 100-400 from Amazon and added it to my other L lenses purchased there, the Canon 24-105 L IS and the Canon 17-40mm L. I recently gave it a workout shooting handheld shots (on my Canon 5D) of a practice session of a 20 crew rowing team. Many shots were while the boat was moving and rocking and quickly changing direction. I was firing off many shots consecutively using the IS #1 position (IS in both vertical and horizontal). Bottom line is that the images I brought home blew me away with high contrast, deep saturated colors and very sharp detail in images. Even at 300% mag on screen, the images still retain detail. Out of over 350 shots, only one was out of focus and that shot was my error. Focus is precise and fast and having seen every shot in focus, I know I can trust the AF on this lens. The moment you see your first results from this lens, the investment price becomes no concern at all and worth every penny. The first prints made yielded a lot of "WOW" from viewers as the prints are tack sharp and needed little level or other adjustments in Photoshop. if you are shooting to get the best results you can possibly achieve, then premium optics are the only way to assure you have that opportunity to get those results.. The push-pull zoom is not a problem to get used to as I had thought it might be. You quickly feel comfortable using this lens even due to it's greater size and weight. The weigh in fact seems to help steady it in your hands (along with IS assisting of course). I never really felt it was too heavy. If your fully engrossed in your shooting, you'll not be distracted by the way this lens works in your hands, not at all. In a world of "you get what you pay for", the Canon 100-400 will not disappoint you at all. A superb piece of glass. I love it!! It is going to get a lot of use.

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