CANON F4.0 70-200MM L USM LENS.

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Hi all, i am just wanting some opinions on this lens. What i will be wanting to use it for is bird/wildlife photography. I am on a budget and this seems to be as good as ill get for zoom, shutter speed and fast auto focus. What do you guys think?

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its a top lens but imho it may well be far to short for you there is lads on here using 400 and 600mm lenses and still struggle if its at the top of your budget id try and budget for a tc to then it will give that extra oomphhh but still may fall short
 
Too short unless you are skilled at getting close.

Look at the sigma 150-500mm
 
Go for the Bigma, while the F4L is a cracking lens, it is wayyy too short for birds etc. Teleconverters help but unless you're willing to sacrifice some stops in light and aberrations then I wouldn't bother. As Richard said, the 150-500 is a cracking lens for similar money - not as sharp as the Canon 100-400 but considering it's half the price of that it's definitely worth a pop :)
 
I've had plenty of good wildlife and bird shots with my 70-200 so they can be done, but I've always had a 400mm to go with it, so while its an excellent lens, for a single lens setup I'd also recommend a sigma 150-500mm
 
i would have said 1 of the sigmas would be better, dave is the 150-500 not the bigmos and the 50-500 called the bigma not that it matters lol only thing is i hear you may struggle a bit in low light with the sigma
 
The 70-200 f4L is a cracking lens for the price, it's very sharp, very light and it's fast to focus but it's just not really long enough for birding. It's okay for some wildlife shots like squirrels etc in a park but that's about it. This was the first 70-200 I had and eventually worked up to a 70-200 f2.8L IS MkII.

With the 70-200 f2.8L IS MkII it takes a 2x MkIII TC very well to give me 400 and that's the minimum I'd want for wildlife and birding. I use my Sigma 150-500 OS for 90% of wildlife and birding shots and I find it excellent.

I had a Canon 100-400 at the same time as the 150-500 and after a lot of testing I decided to keep the Sigma as they were both equal for IQ, but the OS system of the Sigma was much better than the IS of the Canon and the Sigma seemed to focus better than the Canon in failing light.
 
Thank you all for the sound advice. There seems to be a theme here!
 
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