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Gear Porn: Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS 1.4x Unboxing Video
Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS Extender 1.4x
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The Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS 1.4x is getting delivered to buyers. This highly anticipated lens has a price tag of $11,799, not a budget lens but I bet it will sell very good with sport and wildlife photographers.
PetaPixel reviewed the EF 200-400mm (excerpts):
- The image quality of the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L is, in a word, excellent. Even when shot wide-open at f/4 or f/5.6, the contrast and sharpness of the lens is very good.
- Autofocus is very fast and decisive, even on the EOS 5D Mk IIIbody
- “Sharpness” is the middle name of the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L.
- […] the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x lens is very sharp, very fast with autofocus and very versatile in terms of focal length.
- Crisp, tack sharp and contrasty, the photos are what [you] would never have expected from a super telephoto zoom with an extender.
- […] Canon priced the EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x lens at exactly what it is worth.
Canon Explorer of Light Peter Read Miller had the opportunity to test the lens at the London Olympics 2012 (source: pixsylated). He says:
So, how does the lens perform? The copy I had was fantastic. I’m not an empirical tester—I just shot the lens daily at the London Olympics for 16 days on my EOS-1D X bodies, almost always wide open and usually under challenging lighting conditions. I think without the extender the sharpness is a match for any Canon prime telephoto and with the extender the performance is as good or better than any prime lens plus extender combination I have ever used. The auto-focus speed on the 1D X body is on a par with the latest Series II lenses. The image-stabilization allowed me to make a sharp photo of the Queen during the opening ceremonies at a shutter speed of 1/100 of a second at 560mm on a monopod.
Specs:
- High-Performance Telephoto Zoom Lens
- Canon EF Mount
- Aperture Range f/4-32
- Built-in 1.4x Extender
- Three-Mode Optical Image Stabilization
- Ring USM Autofocus & Internal Focusing System
- Power Focus Mode for Smooth Focus Shift
- One Fluorite and Four UD Lens Elements
- Fluorine Front & Rear Lens Coating
- Highly Resistant to Dust and Water