Official: Canon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II

[thedman]

http://www.cameraegg.org/ef-400mm-f4-do-is-ii-usm-lens-sample-images/

These sample images are underwhelming at best.

 

[infared]

The specs on this lens look FANTASTIC considering the improvement over the old model and basically no price increase, which kind of blows my mind with Canons insane price increases on every L lens released. (although they just had a cut across the board). Perhaps lack of sales has brought them back to sensibility!?

 

[Loswr]

Perhaps lack of sales has brought them back to sensibility!?

Or the falling value of the yen vs. other currencies. :

 

[dufflover]

The animal samples look like they were taken through zoo glass :-S. If that's true, not smart for official samples lol.
Looks pretty sharp to me though so even if there is still that "DO lack of contrast" I'd probably still be interested as it can be fixed in post. At least in those samples; if it performs very bad when shooting in the general direction of the sun where there's already low contrast, could be very troublesome.

 

[jrista]

Sweet Jeebus, look at that MTF!

Indeed. I am quite intrigued...

 

[NancyP]

Good grief, I wonder if they could make an under 3 kilogram 600mm f/4.0 DO with similar MTF? I can imagine hand-holding a 2 kg lens, maybe a 3 kg lens for a short time, but I can't imagine coping with a 4 kg lens hand held (the current 600 f/4L IS II is a shade under 4 kg). I love my toy lens (400 f/5.6L no-IS), I have shot it one-handed hand held (granted, lens pointed near zenith, when I needed to use the other hand to stabilize my position), but you can do those sorts of things with a 1.25 kg lens.

 

[PhotographerJim]

Impressive. Most impressive.

Totally OT, but did anyone else read this in Darth Vader's voice?

If they managed to do this with 400 DO, I wonder if they can pull same trick with 70-300 DO. That would be one nice travelling telezoom

I did, hehe

 

[Chaitanya]

Here are some more samples:
http://www.mattgranger.com/400do

 

[Krob78]

Perhaps lack of sales has brought them back to sensibility!?

Or the falling value of the yen vs. other currencies. :

Or the price of tea in China... :

 

[Steve]

Here are some more samples:
http://www.mattgranger.com/400do

Reading the specs doesn't give you an idea of just how small that lens really is. It looks weirdly small in that video, like a mini 300 2.8 or a fat 400 5.6. Dude's just waving it around like its weightless, too.

 

[hinnerkb]

i guess canon wanted to seperate the DO lenses from the L lenses because it´s a different optical principle.

and until now DO lenses were not up to the L standard.

Well, I'd disagree with that statement. Below are some pics taken with the Version I of this lens. The first one w/o extender, all the others with the 1.4x I. I absolutely love this lens and I see no reason to complain about version I.

 

[mrsfotografie]

Yes I want this lens