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

Lichter21c wrote in post #18890163
For someone that is talking some mad trash about a wonderful lens, those are some pretty ordinary photos you posted.

Exactly! That’s my point, it’s an ordinary lens! On the Spitfire picture, can you see the dark haze around the plane? That’s the lens producing that. So don’t tell me it’s a wonderful lens. BTW, do you own one yourself?

lol,you are from Norway,land of the trolls.

TheAnalogGuy wrote in post #18891090
Exactly! That’s my point, it’s an ordinary lens! On the Spitfire picture, can you see the dark haze around the plane? That’s the lens producing that. So don’t tell me it’s a wonderful lens. BTW, do you own one yourself?

10,413 posts in this thread, 99.98% of them are from members who are most pleased with the results of this lens. And the pictures apart from your examples show why. So why the incessant need to join this forum and bash this thread from start? Your opinion is kind of like a fart, probably best kept to yourself.

mat vanella wrote in post #18891114
10,413 posts in this thread, 99.98% of them are from members who are most pleased with the results of this lens. And the pictures apart from your examples show why. So why the incessant need to join this forum and bash this thread from start? Your opinion is kind of like a fart, probably best kept to yourself.

Well, it looks more like an attaboy thread to me.


(attaboy:
A derogatory term used when describing a person who seeks constant affirmation for their work or achievements.)

TheAnalogGuy wrote in post #18891090
Exactly! That’s my point, it’s an ordinary lens! On the Spitfire picture, can you see the dark haze around the plane? That’s the lens producing that. So don’t tell me it’s a wonderful lens. BTW, do you own one yourself?

Perhaps, instead of taking an awful photo and expecting us to accept it's the lens, not you, you could take one of the best photos in this thread (i.e. one that shows just what this lens is capable of) and tell us what's wrong with it?

Spencerphoto wrote in post #18891134
Perhaps, instead of taking an awful photo and expecting us to accept it's the lens, not you, you could take one of the best photos in this thread (i.e. one that shows just what this lens is capable of) and tell us what's wrong with it?

Any (well, almost any) lens can produce magnificent pictures under ideal conditions. But the ones I took, straight up in the clear blue sky in bright sunlight, this lens clearly shows its limitations. Hence my opinion that it is an ordinary lens.

If you don't like it here, why stick around, just here to kick a hornets nest and big note yourself? And your spamming threads with one photo per post instead of combing into a single post is clearly fishing for likes, what gives? Got off to a fantastic start mate.

I wonder how many of you guys here who actually own this lens and have used it?
I bought it in 2015 and I have used it several times at airshows and to landscape photography. It’s not a bad lens, but not an exceptional lens either, as you guys claim. It clearly has its limitations when it comes to light. It is a daylight lens, but in bright sunlight at small apertures it has its limitations, like the dark haze around the plane on the Spitfire picture.

mat vanella wrote in post #18891138
And your spamming threads with one photo per post instead of combing into a single post is clearly fishing for likes, what gives? Got off to a fantastic start mate.

The reason for that is that I have problems with uploading more than one picture per post. I know it is not ideal, but I don’t know why, and I apologize if it bothers you.

TheAnalogGuy wrote in post #18891144
I wonder how many of you guys here who actually own this lens and have used it?
I bought it in 2015 and I have used it several times at airshows and to landscape photography. It’s not a bad lens, but not an exceptional lens either, as you guys claim. It clearly has its limitations when it comes to light. It is a daylight lens, but in bright sunlight at small apertures it have its limitations, like the dark haze around the plane on the Spitfire picture.

I imagine EVERYONE here who owns this lens actually uses it.

I was more saying that you are a sub-standard photographer. I don't think you know how to get the most out of a lens. If those are images you had taken then should probably spend more time learning, and less time on the internet telling people that their lens sucks.

I am taking delivery of my new 100-400II tomorrow. I will gladly post examples of how you are incorrect.

In my experience, when someone likes to dog a piece of equipment. 99% of the time they have no idea what they are doing.

In reference to my previous post.

I did a focus test and to my surprise via the View Finder focus is off but in Live View Mode the lens is sharp!

Guess I'll have to send the lens / body in for calibration, micro adjustment seems to have no effect.

See images. First one is through the View Finder.

TheAnalogGuy wrote in post #18891144
I wonder how many of you guys here who actually own this lens and have used it?
I bought it in 2015 and I have used it several times at airshows and to landscape photography. It’s not a bad lens, but not an exceptional lens either, as you guys claim. It clearly has its limitations when it comes to light. It is a daylight lens, but in bright sunlight at small apertures it has its limitations, like the dark haze around the plane on the Spitfire picture.

And yet there are countless examples in this thread taken under similar conditions that don't awful like yours.

Is it back or front focusing and how much adjustment did you try?

I have far far more success with MFA when I shoot a ruler at a 45 degree down angle rather than a flat target on the wall.

edit: Actually I use a tape measure stretched out on the ground. I just did my new to me 16-35. -2 improved both ends.

Martin.D wrote in post #18891271
... micro adjustment seems to have no effect.

This lens has always worked great for me. In decent light it is almost on par with my 70-200mm F/2.8 II in quality of photos. You just have to know when and how to use it and know when to put it up and not use it. It also helps to know something about post processing your images.

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