EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Review WOW!

digital paradise wrote in post #18787244
Version 2 might be restricted but I get all AF points with version 3. On another thread didn't you say that the 5D4 does not suffer the imposed AF speed? Maybe you are referring to the version 2 TC.

To get all AF points you need the 1.4X III

To get no slow down you also need the III

So we are in agreement. If you read the quote I am responding to, my reply is about the 1.4XII (2, two, dos, etc.).

MatthewK wrote in post #18787057
I'm trying a new strategy to get close to them: when they dive, sprint closer When they come back up, they don't know you're there. Can't remember where I read to do this, but it's fun.

Good idea, Matt. Stay young and you'll be able to do that for a long time. Get old like me, and you will have to come up with another method.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18787288
To get all AF points you need the 1.4X III

To get no slow down you also need the III

So we are in agreement. If you read the quote I am responding to, my reply is about the 1.4XII (2, two, dos, etc.).

Yeah I was just wondering. I tested the 5D4 for the faster AF. I wasn’t aware that the TC version was also a factor but that makes sense. Been many years since I had version II.

I stumbled across these Hooded Margansers near a job in Stone Mountain, GA. They were in rainwater retention pond. I glanced over and spotted them on my way home and packed my camera the next couple visits. They were very camera shy; major crops.

well, it looks like i have to find the money for a 1.4 iii now,as i only have the second version. she won't miss a pair of vintage earrings, right?

N.V.M. wrote in post #18787600
well, it looks like i have to find the money for a 1.4 iii now,as i only have the second version. she won't miss a pair of vintage earrings, right?

WRONG! But she will notice the 1.4III however hard you try to disguise it!
I have never managed to get away with it yet, well, hardly ever!
Good luck on the 1.4xIII, mine has become an almost permanent fixture with the 100-400L II.

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N.V.M. wrote in post #18787600
well, it looks like i have to find the money for a 1.4 iii now,as i only have the second version. she won't miss a pair of vintage earrings, right?

My wife is nuts this way... I have to be very careful what I say... If I like aloud a curtain lens... behind my back she will order it in.... Regardless of whether or not we eat the next 4 months...

My wife is somewhere in between. If I so much as mention new camera gear she yells at me. But if I “smuggle” it in, she never seems to question it. Not even “I thought you had Canon” when my body said Sony for a while. I haven’t paraded my 70-200 f4’s big brother yet.

Pondrader wrote in post #18787777
My wife is nuts this way... I have to be very careful what I say... If I like aloud a curtain lens... behind my back she will order it in.... Regardless of whether or not we eat the next 4 months...

Mine is the opposite. As soon as she sees a picture of a lens on the screen, I get a “what are you buying now?”. When the 100-400 arrived I got a “What is that, and how are you going to pay for it?”. My standard response of “I’m shuffling some gear”, seems to keep balance in the force.

ct1co2 wrote in post #18787807
Mine is the opposite. As soon as she sees a picture of a lens on the screen, I get a “what are you buying now?”. When the 100-400 arrived I got a “What is that, and how are you going to pay for it?”. My standard response of “I’m shuffling some gear”, seems to keep balance in the force.

I tried the "shuffling" thing for a while. She HATES when I buy and sell gear. She's sure I'm losing money every time. So I just stopped asking and telling. I just never say anything and things just come and go.

Well my wife heard about the new 100-400LII and how it was so awesome..... BOOM... Thats how I got mine... Thats was back when they were hard to get.

I think I'm pretty close to a million images with it... What the heck...heres one more

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randy98mtu wrote in post #18787830
I tried the "shuffling" thing for a while. She HATES when I buy and sell gear. She's sure I'm losing money every time. So I just stopped asking and telling. I just never say anything and things just come and go.

I've done a lot of smuggling.