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400mm f/5.6L

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Brand	Canon
Focal Length Description	400 mm
Lens Type	Telephoto
Compatible Mountings	Canon EF
Camera Lens Description	400 month

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Lens construction: 7 elements in 6 groups
Diagonal Angle of View: 6° 10' .Fluorite and Ultra-low Dispersion-glass; internal focusing; full-time manual focus
Closest Focusing Distance: 35m / 115 ft
Focal Length & Maximum Aperture: 400mm 1:56
Filter size: 77mm

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Built-in hood, Lens Case

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10.12 x 3.54 x 3.54 inches

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2.8 pounds

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B00009USW3

Item model number

2526A004

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4.2 224 ratings

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#1,626 in SLR Camera Lenses

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

May 21, 2004

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This high-performance lens was designed with portability and handling ease in mind. One Super UD-glass element, whose characteristics are similar to fluorite, and one UD-glass element result in sharp pictures from corner-to-corner. The lens also has a built-in hood and a detachable tripod mount.

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Light. Portable. Excellent handling. Sharp. And amazingly fast autofocus. The 400mm f/5.6L is all of these things, and a premier choice for wildlife and nature photographers--one of the finest telephoto lenses in the world for fast-moving subjects such as birds in flight or motor sports. It uses UD-glass elements to provide outstanding optical quality, even wide-open, and image quality is preserved when used with either the EF 1.4x II or EF 2x II tele extenders. It accepts 77mm filters, and has a built-in removable tripod collar.

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A super telephoto lens can make an ordinary scene into an extraordinary one. Its ability to see surpasses that of the human eye. It can compress images and make them look as if they come from another dimension. It opens up new realms of photographic expression. All EF super telephoto lenses are L-series lenses to provide the highest quality. The USM provides quiet and high-speed autofocusing. These lenses promise outstanding delineation and put your imagination to the test.

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Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM Super Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

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The EF 400mm f/5.6L USM super-telephoto lens delivers exemplary optical performance and fast autofocus from a portable, lightweight design. A popular combination with wildlife photographers.

Features:

L-series construction and optics
Large focal length compact size
One UD and one super UD lens element
Fast, quiet USM autofocus
Built in lens hood

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Zozobra

Nice lens for wildlife photogrpahy

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2013

Style: 400mm f/5.6LVerified Purchase

I have used this lens for 2 years mostly for birds in flight photography on a Canon 7D and a Canon 5D Mk3. The lens is very well built and this lens has held up great with very frequent use (approximately 3 days / week in the field). I find the lens focuses very fast with the body in AI Servo mode for birds in flight. Northern Harriers are my favorite subject. They fly low and erratically, which makes for very challenging auto-focusing. The 400 mm f/5.6L does ok in finding focus. I like to shoot with the motor focus search off - that is the lens will still auto-focus, however it does not do wide distance searching.

For comparison sake: I also own a Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 lens. I never end up using the Sigma lens. Perhaps I have a bad copy? I can not get a sharp focus and find consistently lower IQ than the Canon 400mm f/5.6L. I have performed lens micro-focus adjustments a few times on all my lens and did not find any big improvements. The Canon 400 mm f/5.6L delivers much better images than the Sigma -- and even though the Sigma has longer reach, and image stabilization, I do not use it as much as the Canon 400mm.

Also, in the spirit of comparison, I own a Canon 300 mm f/4L IS USM that I use with the Canon 1.4x III extender. This gives an effective 420mm f/5.6 lens. This setup (420mm) gives me much better image quality than the Canon 400 mm f/5.6L. This seems counter-intuitive, having an extender would seem to lower IQ. My experience in the field though consistently show better performance from the Canon 300mm f/4: IS USM (which is newer than my 400 mm f/5.6L and uses the new flourite glass elements, and also has IS that the 400mm f/5.6 does not have. Yes, the combined cost of the 300mm f/4L with an 1.4x III extender is more than the 400 mm f/5.6L alone -- however in my experience I am happier with the 300mm f/4L + 1.4x III combination.

You can see examples of the photos taken with this lens by web searching "mountainhorizonphotography" (all one word).

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Canon 400mm f/5.6L Telephoto Lens

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2009

Style: 400mm f/5.6LVerified Purchase

I purchased this lens primarily for hand-held bird photography for use on my Canon 40D DSLR. The lens is typical of Canon's L-series "white" family of professional level telephoto lenses, having very high standards of construction and superb optical performance, even with a 1.4X teleconverter, when conditions allow.

This lens is known as the "overlooked" Canon telephoto, since it does not garner the glamor of its cousins, the really long, heavy, faster, and vastly more costly professional telephoto lenses. It is also known as the "toy lens" by bird photographers who mostly use those really Big Berthas for long-distance close-ups with blurred-out backgrounds.

I selected it for the high image quality wide-open, relatively light weight, and shorter physical length, allowing both hand-held and tripod mounted use, as well as its modest cost (compared to all high quality alternatives). The image quality is extremely high, even wide open at f/5.6, although it does improve slightly stopped down a notch or two. The image contrast, flare resistance, and color saturation are also excellent for a telephoto lens of its "older" fixed focal length optical design.

It doesn't have image stabilization (IS), which maintains the reasonable price, but I don't consider that much of a handicap using Canon's DSLR's, which allow low-noise high ISO settings for higher shutter speeds under decent lighting conditions. Braced against a tree, fence post, etc., and especially in a sitting position with arms resting on knees, for example, the lack of IS is simply not an issue. The focus is extremely fast and accurate with the 40D's sensitive all X-type focus points, and the quickly removable tripod mount is of an excellent design that all tripod mounts should have.

As a bonus, on the 40D, the lens has the equivalent field of view of a 640mm f/5.6 telephoto lens! When a high quality teleconverter can be used, this becomes almost a 900mm f/8 telephoto (actually 896mm)! Not to exaggerate the point too much, but that's starting to get into the Big Bertha focal length range, under the right lighting conditions. Other pluses include the handy built-in sliding lens hood and the very high quality included lens case, which are extra cost items for Canon's non-L lenses.

The 400mm and 500mm zooms all seem to suffer from image softness at their maximum focal lengths, which I would be using 90% of the time anyway, so I elected to simply get the highest quality fixed 400mm I could find for a reasonable price. I also decided that I could live with 1 f-stop less than the much more expensive f/4's, since this lens can be shot wide-open at the same high quality as the f/4's stopped down - thus resulting in f/5.6 anyway.

This reasoning is even more appropriate when including the slightly less expensive, still high-quality, third party lenses, such as Tamron, Tokina, Sigma, etc. I reasoned that since I plan to use this lens for the rest of my life, why compromise in image quality for a few percent lower initial cost? I'm not slamming third party lenses in general by any means (I own a few), just in this case of comparing available alternatives (including other Canon's) to the selection of this particular Canon 400mm and its intended use.

I was blessed with several excellent bald eagle shots on what I had expected to be just an initial "practice with the new lens" outing. Because of this excellent lens, it turned out to be a very productive shoot. I would include a thumbnail photo of one of these shots, except I can't seem to be able to "paste" a small image into Amazon's review window.

For one that is willing to accept and operate within the parameters of this lens, that photographer will be handsomely rewarded by Canon's 400mm f/5.6L telephoto lens. In my case, it is exactly what I was looking for and it is exceeding all my expectations.

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purrdey

Heavy but does the job

Reviewed in Canada on June 22, 2014

Style: 400mm f/5.6LVerified Purchase

I bought this for a trip to BC/Alaska, and it's my first Canon L lens. It may have cost me an arm and a leg, but it is solidly built and focuses very fast. I bought a monopod at the same time but it could really do with a pistol grip screwed into the lens's tripod bush when you're shooting hand-held (and if you're shooting bears, whales or bald eagles in flight, you WILL be). It may not have IS but I took most of my shots on this trip at 1/1000th or faster and it mostly wasn't a problem. But if you're shooting moving wildlife AND you've got the shakes it could be. One DISADVANTAGE of this lens is that if the wildlife gets TOO close, you'll wish you'd bought a zoom, but the quality advatntages of this being a prime lens outweigh those considerations.
One of the features I particularly like about this lens is the extensible, built-in lens hood. It's a shame every lens can't have this option.

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Brian E Ruck

Great lens

Reviewed in Canada on December 29, 2022

Style: 400mm f/5.6LVerified Purchase

We have had this lens for a few years now and are still very happy with the pictures it produces.

Robert Kowaluk

This lens is excellent on my Sony a7II with an adapter.

Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2019

Style: 400mm f/5.6LVerified Purchase

I purchased this lens to use with my canon 7D II.
It is excellent on the 7DII in order to get very sharp images it should be used on a tripod with high shutter speed. When I put it on my Sony a7ii with an adapter the a7ii will focus fairly quickly.
But the biggest bonus is the Sony IBS works perfect with this lens. I can hand hold with slower
Shutter speed and get very sharp images.
I think this lens will be on my Sony a lot more than on my canon.

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picture quality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2021

Style: 400mm f/5.6LVerified Purchase

brilliant lens at a brilliant price

Sean Stephens

Great, affordable, workhorse telephoto lens

Reviewed in Canada on April 2, 2015

Style: 400mm f/5.6LVerified Purchase

Fantastic inexpensive telephoto lens for bright, daylight photography. Crisp even wide open at f/5.6 impressively sharp even with the canon 2.0x mk iii extender (but manual focus only at f/11)
I am concerned about how long before the integrated lens hood starts refusing to tighten down, but until then, it's a great feature.

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