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Canon 400mm f/5.6 USM 'L' Review

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This Canon 400mm f/5.6 USM 'L' lens is a great choice for wildlife and sports photography. While it lacks image stabilization, it offers excellent image quality and a nice bokeh. It is well-built and compares well to other telephoto lenses in the market.

If you can handle its lack of stabilization, the Canon 400mm f/5.6 USM 'L' lens comes highly recommended. It offers excellent image quality and is a great choice for wildlife and sports photography.

Pros
  • Great for wildlife and sports photography
  • Excellent image quality
  • Well-built
  • Comparatively affordable
Cons
  • Lacks image stabilization
  • Limited close focusing distance
  • Heavy

The lens provides sharp images with minimal distortion and vignetting, even at wider apertures.

The Canon 400mm f/5.6 USM 'L' lens is a great choice for wildlife and sports photography. The lens is well-built and offers excellent image quality with a nice bokeh. Although it lacks image stabilization, its size and build quality make it a viable option for photographers who can handle its limitations. The lens is a bit heavy but is manageable for long periods of time. The autofocus is fast and quiet, and the manual focus ring is smooth. The lens provides sharp images with minimal distortion and vignetting, even at wider apertures. The close-up image quality is extremely sharp, although it can only focus as closely as three and a half meters, which may be a limitation for some photographers. Overall, the Canon 400mm f/5.6 USM 'L' lens is a well-made, high-quality lens that is highly recommended for those who can work around its lack of image stabilization.

The Canon 400mm f/5.6 USM 'L' lens is well-built and compares well to other telephoto lenses in the market.

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Christopher Frost

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