 Simply an incredible lense 83 of 92 people found this review helpful.
This lens has perfect image quality, seemless zoom and focusing controls, and the optimum telephoto range for outdoor and sports photography.
Clarity is continuous from 100mm all the way to 400mm. With my old 100-300mm lense, I rarely shot over 250mm because I began to lose clarity. I compensated by cropping when I got home. With this lense, 95% of my wildlife photos don't need cropping (not to mention the improved color and clarity). It does work well with my 2x extender, but I find that I don't need it very often any more.
I don't think you could find a better lense for photographing wildlife and sports.
Drawbacks:
1. You pay for what you get. Even though clarity, focus, and zoom are the best available, I wouldn't say they are 10x better than an off-brand lense that you can get for 1/10th the price.
2. Weight. Did I mention wildlife photography? This lense rarely goes hiking. Though when it does, it is worth a few extra aches and pains in your shoulders, back, hips, thighs, quads, knees, calves, ankles, and feet. You WILL need to add the weight of a tripod to your pack as well. You won't be holding this lense up waiting for an animal to strike the perfect pose for long without some support.
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Before purchasing this lens, my longest lens was 70-200mm f/4L EF lens(non IS). Although it does the job, often I wish for little longer zoom when shooting wild life and nature shots. Initially thought about getting 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens, but there seems to be little problem with this lens that Canon hasn't addressed - some flare problem. Spent little more and got 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS. What an amzing lens it is. I initially thought it would be really heavy by its size, but surprisingly it was ok to me.
Image quality? I think they are better and sharper than my 70-200mm and even my 24-70mm f/2.8L lens. Perhaps I got a real sharp copy. ^_^
The other reviewer didn't mention anything about IS. When shooting in this zoom range, you really need a tripod. Otherwise, your shot will be all blurry by hand shake. But with IS turned on, I was able to save 90% of the shots shooting at maximum 400mm @ 60~100 shutter speed. Normally you'd need 400+ shutter speed to get sharp images. Sure, you can get cheaper lens with this zoom range, but you won't get IS nor its known "L" quality sharpness and color rendering.
Build quality is awesome and has push pull zoom instead of rotating zoom. Some people may prefer rotating zoom, and I had worried about it, but it's not much big of a deal. You just need to get used to it.
If you were thinking of purchasing this lens, I highly recommend it!!!
Happy Shooting~~
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