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

KEH, $1999.00. Used in
"Excellent +" condition with all accessories.

One from this morning.... Go Jenny!

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I'm thrilled to have moved this amazing lens from my wish list, into my gear list . The longest focal length I've had to date is 200mm, it's fantastic now to have 400mm at my disposal.

I got mine a few weeks back and I am really enjoying it. Probably the tipping point for me was 50 pages of pretty much all praise on here! African Harrier-hawk.

Received mine earlier this week. It's definitely thicker and heavier than I expected, but you get used to it after a while. My 200 f/2.8L II looks tiny in comparison.
I really like the IS at 400mm. It literally stops the image in the viewfinder.

Here is a 100% crop of a moon shot I took this evening with the 20D. Only very moderate sharpening (1 notch out of 10) was applied to the RAW file in DPP. I'm impressed.

400mm wide open at f/5.6, handheld

Nice moonshot

Only used mine on an outing yesterday and have yet upload them......soon!

A quick question to other users? I had the mkI and was used to the smooth/tight ring having a lot more rotation than on this new one. It seems to be approx a quarter turn.....is yours the same?

The other thing I noticed was in the zoom rotation was a very slight difference in feel & sound of zooming, in that there is as it zooms there is a vaguely audible noise like rubbing and possibly my imagination that the zoom feels less smooth during that part of the rotation. This was I am sure with tensioning ring at the most smooth end? Any thoughts and feedback would be welcome

Mine was delivered today & it is spectacular! Definitely going to take some getting used to the weight, it's not bad but I'm not the most "steady handed" person. Practice , practice, practice! Lol!

Box Brownie wrote in post #17532447
Nice moonshot

Only used mine on an outing yesterday and have yet upload them......soon!

A quick question to other users? I had the mkI and was used to the smooth/tight ring having a lot more rotation than on this new one. It seems to be approx a quarter turn.....is yours the same?

The other thing I noticed was in the zoom rotation was a very slight difference in feel & sound of zooming, in that there is as it zooms there is a vaguely audible noise like rubbing and possibly my imagination that the zoom feels less smooth during that part of the rotation. This was I am sure with tensioning ring at the most smooth end? Any thoughts and feedback would be welcome

My tension ring also has about a quarter of a turn. Zoom is smooth though.

Several new owners in last few posts.
I'd suggest checking the 4 small screws in the tripod ring base plate (not the foot, remove foot to see them)
Several reports of them not being loose, as were mine.

Good to here Lisa, Go get some good stuff

I'm gonna give it a shot Jeff, not much free time this weekend! Love that Marten!

Just checked mine, they're good! Thanks for the heads up!

Just checked mine also. Good to go. Thanks for the tip.

LisaBlue85 wrote in post #17532548
I'm gonna give it a shot Jeff, not much free time this weekend! Love that Marten!

Forgot ...Its the fox your into

Choderboy wrote in post #17532526
Several new owners in last few posts.
I'd suggest checking the 4 small screws in the tripod ring base plate (not the foot, remove foot to see them)
Several reports of them not being loose, as were mine.

Thanks, will give them a check.