Canon 400mm 5.6L Lens Review: L Series Professional Lens

Canon 400mm 5.6L Lens Review: L Series Professional Lens video transcript:

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This is a review of the canon 400mm 5.6L lens

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It's a professional series lens

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i've been very happy with this lens. I'll put some pictures in this video to show

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you

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what this is capable of

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It has a built-in lens hood which pops out and locks in place

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it's a little odd but

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I find myself liking it

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the one thing is you can't uh...

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put the lens cap on when the hood is extended

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but that's to be expected

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before I bought this lens I was using

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standard 70-300 zoom lens

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This is a great lens

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lighter than the 400

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shorter than the 400

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but the quality images coming out of the 400

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there's no comparison

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It's

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much better quality, which

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is not surprising since it is an L lens

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when looking at this lens I was also considering the 100-400L

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around the same price range

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and also gives you the zoom

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however whenever I'm using my 70-300

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i've noticed that I'm usually using it at 300mm

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usually I want more reach

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and it's my understanding that prime lenses meaning

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not zoom, fixed at one focal length

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are generally sharper and focus faster

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I don't need the zoom

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this hasn't really been a problem. There have been a couple instances where

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the eagle is just

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too close

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by a little bit but it's not a big deal

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and I'm happy with the lens

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I also compared this lens to the 70-200 2.8L lens

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this lens is a pound lighter than that

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it doesn't seem like a lot

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but it definitely feels lighter than the 70-200

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again this lens has no zoom like the 70-200

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but that hasn't been a problem for me

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I do a lot of wildlife photography

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400 is twice as much reach as 70-200

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so you get that much closer

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another thing I noticed moving from 70-300

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the focus on this is better and much faster

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which is important when you're shooting moving objects such as a

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woodpecker or a bald eagle

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one final note, this lens does not have

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image stabilization

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which worried me at first but

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in practice I shoot moving objects so

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my shutter speed is fast enough

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anyway that

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image stabilization wouldn't help

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It would help keep on target

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but in terms of

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the final image

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the shutter speed if fast enough that it doesn't matter

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Here are some pictures that I have taken with this lens.