Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM Telephoto Lens

Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM Telephoto Lens

Canon's 600mm f/4 IS super telephoto lens is the ultimate tool for bird, sports, nature and wildlife photography. Forget about taking handheld shots using the image stabilization. While this is possible, this lens is really just too big to and overly heavy to reasonably handheld. To get the full use from this lens a high quality tripod with Wimberley Mount is certainly a requirement.  Also, It's like looking out for a 12 pound child - When you are out, you must to take it everywhere and not let it out of your sight. It's plenty to carry, you definitely don't want to bump it around, and always in the back of your mind is that someone might try to run off with it when you're not looking.

An outstanding professional lens for bridging distances in sports, wildlife, and many other applications--including commercial and fashion for the distinct "compressed" telephoto character and totally out-of-focus backgrounds its images can possess. Fluorite and UD glass are combined for incredible image quality, even wide-open. Image Stabilization adds a new dimension in this long lens’ usefulness, even in marginal lighting. It works beautifully with both 1.4x II and 2x II extenders, and now focuses as close as 17.5 feet/5.4 m. It has the same weather-resistant gaskets and sealed focusing and focus pre-set rings as Canon’s other Image Stabilized super-telephoto lenses.

Like all L series lenses, this one is built extremely solid. It may feel fairly large and bulky to those who haven't used L series lenses before. The extra bulk is comes from higher quality glass and the use of more durable materials (metal vs. plastic).

Super Telephoto Lens
High Power telephoto lenses from 400 mm to 800 mm (APS-C 300 mm 500 mm) and longer are very expensive, even for the slower versions, but they provide the ultimate in telephoto photography. Deep pockets are needed for most lenses in this range, particularly the faster versions, as one lens can cost more than the average person may spend on photography in their life. A super-telephoto lens can reveal far-off objects barely visible to the human eye.
A professional-quality 400 mm ƒ/2.8 lens is the ultimate dream lens of many sports and wildlife photographers, which they may save for years to acquire. A 600 mm ƒ/4 lens is even more striking, but the 16-times magnification of an 800 mm ƒ/5.6 lens can also be used for astrophotography with clear, vivid results.

Professional photographers are the primary consumers of such magnificent lenses. A majority of the images we see in publications are shot with these lenses.

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Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM Telephoto Lens