Forgotten 400

It's not big and impressive. It's not fast. It doesn't haveImage Stabilization. It's not inexpensive. It's been around for years. So what's it good for? It's good for for taking remarkably sharp photographs and it's small enough and light enough to fit in your bag and be with you whenever needed. Here's how I came to test — and then to buy theCanon EF 400mm f/5.6L.
I've been using theCanon 100-400mm f/5.6L ISzoom for the past 4 years, ever since it was introduced. I was never happy with the push-pull zoom design, and the lens shade is badly designed and keeps falling off. But when used with my EOS 3, EOS 1V, D30 and D60 this zoom lens has requited itself well and produced some very fine images.
But in the fall of 2002 I started using theCanon EOS 1Dsand it quickly because my main camera, replacing all of the previous 35mm gear as well as most of my medium format camera systems. Why? Because the image quality is superb. But I quickly found that it was extremely demanding of lens...