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 .
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).
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!
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.
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.
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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. Keep them coming, folks!
