> From: "Hugo Lopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [snip] It will be faster, more compact and lightweight, but if optical quality is >not as > good as the current 100-400, will it stand the comparison? > I'd like to hear other opinions on this. > > Regards > > Hugo
It seems the jury is still out on the 400DO. http://www.luminous-landscape.com gives it a pretty good review while others seem a bit negative. I am quite enthusiastic about anything that will lighten my heavy burden in long lenses. There is a big BUT though. If it comes at a cost in optical excellence, I am NOT interested. Not at all! The 400 seems an odd duck. I would have to feel it delivers superior performance to the EF300/2.8L IS with EF1.4 TC to see any real advantage to it.It is nearly the same size. First indications are that it might actually not deliver images even as good as that combination and at greater cost. That is not progress IMO. Still my mind remains open and it will be very interesting to see where Canon takes these new lenses. I don't want to sound negative about this development. I think the measure of a true advance would be if the DO series actually REPLACED the L series of super teles . . . like the IS models did. To do so, they must be of the same excellence optically and come in at a price point not too much higher than the already prohibitive cost of these lenses. Seems were are quite a ways from that. We're going to have to be patient to see how this works out. -- Terence A. Danks Nature & Wildlife Photography http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/danksta/home.htm * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
