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Lenses / Re: A New EF 400 f/5.6L Before Photokina? [CR1]

« on: September 03, 2012, 11:14:11 PM »

I see no real point. 5.6 is too slow for a prime.

They're popular with the birds-in-flight crowd where there is plenty of light so f5.6 is fine. In that situation you usually don't need IS either though.The minimum focus distance is 3.5m... which could also do with an improvement but again, it's not really needed for BIF.

There are faster 400mm primes but they are very expensive compared to the 5.6

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Lenses / Re: A New EF 400 f/5.6L Before Photokina? [CR1]

« on: September 03, 2012, 10:44:16 PM »

The 400mm f/5.6 prime is sharper than the 100-400mm.

I really hope they add IS to this lens...

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Lenses / Re: Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Firmware Available

« on: August 22, 2012, 03:19:45 AM »

Great! Finally it worked. The problem should just be the battery. I tried with another battery, 100% charged, and it worked!...

I had a similar experience. Failed several times in the same manner as other people have described here. I then saw your post and tried one of my spare batteries (charged to 100%)... still no go. Finally, I tried my other spare battery, again fully charged, and it work fine.

Very strange. I did buy this lens very soon after they hit the market so I wonder if it is an early shipment that has this issue. I did the upgrade on a 5Dmk3 running firmware 1.1.3