Canon 400mm f/5.6L

Got a Canon 400mm f/5.6L from UPS today. I still have to take it out in the field, but despite the lack of image stabilization it’s possibly the sharpest lens I’ve tried:

This is handheld with flash but no tripod and wide open!

The lens is also surprisingly light. However the minimum focus distance is quite long: 3.5m.

The 300mm + 1.4x teleconverter didn’t do nearly as good a job, even on a tripod:

The 300mm with no teleconverter was close to as sharp, but the lack of magnification effectively lost the benefit of that:

I didn’t try this test when I had the 100-400mm lens out.

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