test: New Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.0-5.6L IS USM Autofocus Lens ready for 2013 Photokina Announcement

✔ This Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM Autofocus UPDATED Lens offers very high resolution, superb contrast, neutral color balance, and Canon’s updated 4-stop built-in Image Stabilizer function. High zoom magnification is achieved by means of a 6-group configuration with 5 movable groups.

✔ New Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6L IS USM Autofocus Lens is reported to be ready for the 2013 Photokina Announcement. Fluorite and Super UD glass completely eliminate secondary spectrum for superb color rendition. Autofocusing is fast and silent with Canon’s ring USM, and AF speed is further enhanced through an advanced, lightweight rear focusing design that incorporates a floating element for consistent image quality at all focusing distances from 5.9′ to infinity.

✔ This lens is also equipped with a dual-mode with an updated Four-Stop Image Stabilizer module, suitable for panning as well as stationary subjects. With full-time manual focus, one-touch zooming with a wide grip, and a special ring that permits adjustment of zooming friction.

✔ This is a lens that’s extremely easy to use, and ideal for a wide variety of applications including nature, wildlife, sports, and documentary photography.

✔ We’ve owned this lens for a decade. Some of our best shots were captured with this exceptionally fast lens, meaning fast focusing coupled with fast zooming. The push-pull zoom mechanism is foreign to new-comers to this lens. However, once you’ve used this big beauty for an hour or so, you’ll come to love it.

✔ Rumor has it that a Major Update for this lens may be coming out sooner rather than later, meaning Photokina, the largest Photo Convention held in Cologne Germany, held every two years. This year 2013 is a Photokina year. We will buy this one for sure. Look for a surprise in the specifications, like 82mm front filter dimension. Perhaps Canon can open the maximum aperture an extra f0.5 to f4.0.

✔ Floating internal lens element & rear-group focusing

✔ Fluorite & ultra-low dispersion lens elements

✔ Tripod collar

✔ Focal Length: 100mm to 400 mm, IS "L" zoom

✔ Aperture: Maximum: f/4 – 5.6

✔ Minimum: f/32 – 40

✔ Camera Mount Type : Canon EF

✔ Format Compatibility: 35mm Film / Full-Frame Digital Sensor and Canon (APS-C)

✔ Angle of View: 24° – 6°

✔ Minimum Focus Distance: 5.9′ (1.80 m)

✔ Magnification: 0.2x

✔ Maximum Reproduction Ratio: 1:5

✔ Groups/Elements: 14/17

✔ Diaphragm Blades: 5 (may be upgraded to 8 blades)

✔ The young Native American Indian girl’s name is Bree Bdzwawka, whose Indian Tribal linage is, Menominee, Bad River Chippewa, Oneida, and Ho-Chunk tribes.

✔ Image was captured by: Jim.Wilson 2007, Indian Summer, Milwaukee, WI.

✔ The image capture was: Date Taken: 2007-09-08 14:57:28

✔ Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark III

✔ Exposure Time: (1/3200) Shutter Speed increased to capture the Yellow-Jacket Bee

✔ Aperture: f/5.6

✔ ISO: 640

✔ Focal Length: 300mm (390mm in 35mm)

✔ Here is a link to the gallery of images:

✔ http://www.416-1100.com/NativeAmericanIndianEvents/Indian-Summer-Festival-21st/

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