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Archive 2009 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

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p.1 #1 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

To make a long story short - I had this lens for a while and it was a sharp copy. For some stupid reasons I sold it, missed it and bought another used copy on FM. This is one of the first shots using that new lens. I am pretty pleased how it performs at its longest focal length and at fully wide open... The first image is of the entire frame (well, it shows some vignetting and no adjustment was made for that but still not too bad) and the second one is a crop, not 100% but enough to show what this lens can do. This lens has been much maligned, at least at 400mm, but it is really not bad

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III 400 mm f/5.6 1/1250 sec 800 ISO 0.0 EV

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III 400 mm f/5.6 1/1250 sec 800 ISO 0.0 EV

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Nov 01, 2009 at 02:40 PM

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p.1 #2 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Don't think you can beat the 100-400 for the price, size and image quality.

Nov 01, 2009 at 02:53 PM

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p.1 #3 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

I did about 1.5px high pass sharpening on this one. Sorry, I don't have the 100% crop.

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Nov 01, 2009 at 03:01 PM

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p.1 #4 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Here's a few. This with an earlier copy (date code UR)

Canon 40D, ISO800, 1/320:

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Major crop, Canon 40D, ISO400, 1/640. The GHO nest was about 120 yds away:

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Canon 40D, ISO1600, 1/160:

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Canon 40D, ISO800, 1/500

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Last two through a window.

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Nov 01, 2009 at 03:03 PM

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p.1 #5 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Handheld at 1/40 at ISO 400.

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Nov 01, 2009 at 03:22 PM

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p.1 #6 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Here is one:

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400@f/5.6, ISO 100, SS 1250

Cheers,
Kartik

Nov 01, 2009 at 03:27 PM

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p.1 #7 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

All handheld at 400mm f5.6 :

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Nov 01, 2009 at 03:36 PM

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p.1 #8 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

I find mine to be stunningly sharp wide open at 400mm, almost as good as the 500.

Here are two images, both taken handheld, both with the 1Ds3:

The first was taken with the 1.4x TC wide open at f/8

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100% crop:

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This was sharpened in PS

Here's another, this one was not sharpened in PS, only default Lightroom sharpening, taken with no TC wide open at f/5.6:

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100% crop:

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Detail in the features is lost but the 'teeth' on the bill are the clue to how sharp it is.

I am very pleased with this lens, haven't tried it on a 7D yet, hopefully in a few days, but I expect even on a 7D wide open performance at 400mm to be stellar (based on my experience with the 1Ds3 with the 1.4x TC).

Nov 01, 2009 at 03:37 PM

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p.1 #9 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Wow, look at those images

! I am impressed with the IQ this lens can truly generate at 400mm and at wide open. Yet, there are people that think that this lens is only mediocre at those shooting conditons

. Keep them coming, folks!

Nov 01, 2009 at 04:24 PM

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p.1 #10 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

AGeoJO wrote:
Keep them coming, folks!

You asked for it

Nov 01, 2009 at 04:43 PM

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p.1 #11 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

30D 400mm 5.6

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wish I still had it

but will hope to get another at some point

Nov 01, 2009 at 05:24 PM

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p.1 #12 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

I haven't used 100-400 for BIF in a long time. Kept these pics of the albino Peregrine Falcon because of the background......in effect they were BIF skill "calibration" shots.

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Nov 01, 2009 at 05:27 PM

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p.1 #13 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Nello Milanese:
All handheld at 400mm f5.6 :

WOW. I am not taking away anything from the photographer but your copy of this lens is incredible! I never used mine at more than 380 mm and I still stopped it down.
My 70-200 f/4.0 L IS with 1.4 TC is sharper at 280 mm than 100-400 L was.

Nov 01, 2009 at 05:49 PM

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p.1 #14 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Three more BIFs: albino Dwarf Kestrel.

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Nov 01, 2009 at 05:59 PM

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p.1 #15 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

OK peter lets see an Albino Dwarf Golden Eagle

Nov 01, 2009 at 06:19 PM

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p.1 #16 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

No more BIFs, some easy stuff here.

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Nov 01, 2009 at 06:19 PM

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p.1 #17 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Great shots! I wish I hadn't sold mine.

Nov 01, 2009 at 06:25 PM

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p.1 #18 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

PetKal:
No more BIFs, some easy stuff here

Peter, I always liked your "easy stuff". BIF are often missing interesting background

Nov 01, 2009 at 06:51 PM

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p.1 #19 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Ian.Dobinson wrote:

OK peter lets see an Albino Dwarf Golden Eagle

No problem, Ian. Comes out to feed at night only. Had to use a Better Beamer on him.

Thank you, Michael, I try to get appealing background for BIF images, however, as you know, them birds don't follow flight directions very well so one often ends up with a flying bird in an otherwise insipid picture.

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Nov 01, 2009 at 07:15 PM

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p.1 #20 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

This is a great lens. I regularly get shots in which a 100% crop wide open at 400mm is still sharp once a little sharpening has been applied in DPP.

It took me about a year to get used to using the lens though, in the first 12 months I actually wondered if I had soft copy!

Paul

Nov 01, 2009 at 07:39 PM

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p.1 #21 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

70 MPH out the window

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Nov 01, 2009 at 07:41 PM

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p.1 #22 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Should do for starters - plenty more where these came from!

Nov 01, 2009 at 08:18 PM

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p.1 #23 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

n0b0 wrote:
I did about 1.5px high pass sharpening on this one. Sorry, I don't have the 100% crop.

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I think you should brush your pets teeth they look awful

Nov 01, 2009 at 08:51 PM

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p.1 #24 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

Great images guys!

I'd picked up a loaner copy from CPS a little while ago and took it out to my backyard and see what all the fuss was about. Here's a few sample images taken on my 1D, all taken at 400mm.

Wide open, 1/50th:

Wide open, 1/100th:

Wide open, 100% crop:

f7.1 (2/3 stop down), right around 100% crop:

Nov 01, 2009 at 08:55 PM

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p.1 #25 · Show your 100-400mm at 400mm and wide open, please!

I hope this lens does well with 1DMkIIN.....

Nov 01, 2009 at 09:51 PM


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