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Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM Lens

Name: Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM Lens
Brand: Canon
SKU: 4549292186765
Price: 649.0 GBP
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CanonSKU: 4549292186765

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Introducing the Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM Lens

Your gateway to a world of captivating wildlife, exhilarating sports action, and cherished family moments, all from a distance. This versatile zoom lens combines an expansive 100-400mm focal range with a host of advanced features, ensuring exceptional performance and unmatched versatility in a compact, lightweight design.

Key Features:

100-400mm Zoom Range: Experience unparalleled flexibility for capturing distant subjects, whether it's elusive wildlife, fast-paced sports, or candid family moments.
5.5-Stop Optical Image Stabilizer: Achieve remarkable stability for handheld shots, even in challenging lighting conditions, thanks to the advanced 5.5-stop Optical Image Stabilization technology.
Compact, Lightweight Design: Weighing a mere 635g and measuring just 164.7mm in length, this lens is designed for portability and comfort, ensuring effortless handling and balanced performance, even when fully extended.
Nano USM Autofocus: Benefit from smooth, quiet, and lightning-fast autofocus performance, allowing you to capture decisive moments with precision and ease.
UD Glass: Enjoy superior image quality with outstanding aberration control, ensuring crisp, sharp results across the entire zoom range.
Super Spectra Coating: Experience rich, natural colors and enhanced contrast, thanks to the advanced Super Spectra Coating technology that minimizes flare and ghosting.
Lens Control Ring: Take control of your settings with ease using the intuitive Lens Control Ring, allowing for seamless adjustments on the fly.

Zoom in To Your Next Adventure

Embark on your next adventure with confidence, knowing that the Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM Lens is by your side. Whether you're exploring the wilderness, capturing thrilling sports action, or cherishing precious family moments, this lightweight and compact lens delivers exceptional performance that brings your subjects to life.

Reach Those Distant Subjects with Ease

The expansive zoom range of the RF 100-400mm lens empowers you to capture subjects both near and far, making it an ideal choice for a wide range of photographic pursuits, from wildlife photography to sports events and leisurely outings at the park.

Super Sharp and Highly Stable

With its powerful 5.5-stop Optical Image Stabilization, this lens ensures sharp handheld stills and smooth, steady videos, even in challenging shooting conditions, eliminating the need for a cumbersome tripod and allowing you to stay nimble and agile on the move.

Revolutionary Size and Weight

Experience the perfect balance of performance and portability with the Canon RF 100-400mm lens. Its compact and lightweight design makes it an ideal companion for photographers on the go, fitting seamlessly into your kit bag and enhancing your shooting experience wherever your adventures take you.

Responsive Performance with Smooth, Fast AF

Capture fleeting moments with confidence, thanks to the responsive performance of the Nano USM motor, delivering fast, silent, and precise autofocus that keeps pace with your subjects effortlessly. The Lens Control Ring further enhances your shooting experience, providing intuitive control over key settings.

Super Telephoto Power

Experience the extraordinary reach and exceptional image quality of the RF 100-400mm lens, making it the perfect choice for capturing stunning wildlife shots and distant subjects with breathtaking detail and clarity, thanks to its advanced UD glass and cutting-edge coatings.

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Expand your creative horizons with Canon RF extenders, seamlessly integrating with the RF 100-400mm lens to provide even greater telephoto power and precision, allowing you to capture those elusive faraway subjects with unmatched clarity and detail.

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Understanding: Aperture

Aperture is the opening in a camera lens that controls how much light enters the camera. It's measured in f-stops like f/2.8 or f/8. Lower f-stop numbers mean wider openings, letting in more light and creating a shallow depth of field (blurry background). Higher f-stop numbers mean smaller openings, letting in less light and creating a larger depth of field (more of the scene in focus). Aperture also affects the quality of out-of-focus areas in the image (bokeh).

Understanding: Lens Types

Different lenses have different purposes to achieve different styles of images, some popular ones include:
Prime Lens: Fixed focal length, sharp images, great for portraits and dark settings.
Zoom Lens: Variable focal length, versatile for different shots and everyday use..
Wide-Angle Lens: Captures wide scenes like landscapes.
Telephoto Lens: Magnifies distant subjects, ideal for sports & wildlife.
Macro Lens: Perfect for close-up photography of small subjects.
Fisheye Lens: Ultra-wide perspective, creates unique images.

Understanding: Lens Mounts

Different camera brands use different lens mounts, which are like connectors that attach lenses to camera bodies. Each mount is specific to a particular brand and camera series. For example, Canon uses the EF and RF mounts, Nikon uses the F mount, Sony uses the E mount for its mirrorless cameras. These mounts dictate which lenses are compatible with which cameras. Some brands offer adapters to use lenses from other systems, but it's essential to ensure compatibility for proper functionality and autofocus performance.

Understanding: Manual and Autofocus

Manual focus and autofocus are two ways to adjust the sharpness of a camera lens. With manual focus, you turn a ring on the lens to bring the subject into focus yourself, giving you full control over what appears sharp in the image. Autofocus, on the other hand, relies on the camera's built-in technology to automatically adjust the focus for you, usually by detecting contrast or phase differences in the scene. Autofocus can be convenient, especially for fast-moving subjects or when you need to capture a quick shot, whereas manual focus allows for precise adjustments and creative control over the final image.