EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM Lens

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Lean and PowerfulGet ready to capture the action. The EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM offers professional and advanced photographers the excellent image quality of a Canon L series super telephoto lens and is the world's lightest 600mm f/4.0 lens. For brilliantly clear results even in challenging situations, Super Spectra Coatings (SSC) and Air Sphere Coatings (ASC) help minimize ghosting and flare. The inclusion of heat-rejecting paint and two-layer barrel structure helps you shoot longer even in hot weather. Usability is further improved with a shorter minimum focusing distance, full-time manual AF and two easily selectable focus presets to help you quickly dial in the shot you want. Highly versatile, the EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM makes it easy to bring the action clear and up close in virtually any situation.Featuring carefully refined optics, the EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM offers a familiar feel to its predecessor while being even more comfortable to handle thanks to its significantly lighter build. Super UD lens elements offer improved image quality while being more compact in size, while the Image Stabilizer unit has also had its weight reduced. This results in a lens that's more than twenty percent, or approx. 1.92 lbs., lighter than its predecessor.Super Spectra CoatingTo create memorable images with vibrant colors and deep lifelike contrast, minimizing unwanted flare and ghosting is crucial. Canon's Super Spectra Coating (SSC) helps reject extraneous light wavelengths, maintaining overall image quality and color fidelity. Additionally, Canon's Air Sphere Coating (ASC) helps minimize unwanted glare and reflections.Get closer to your subjectThe EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM can help you get close to your subjects with a minimum focusing distance of approx. 13.8 ft./4.2m. This makes it easy to fill the frame with details, letting you capture action-packed scenes for dynamic and impressive results.Circular Aperture for Soft BackgroundsThe EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM features a 9-blade, circular aperture to help create gorgeous, evocative out-of-focus areas and soft backgrounds. With an incredible level of control over background blur, the 9-blade circular aperture helps create intimacy and intensity in photos.Even when used outdoors in the heat for extended periods of time, the EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM delivers consistent and reliable performance you can trust. A new paint formulation reflects even more heat than before, while a two-layer barrel structure helps reduce the thermal effects on the lens elements.An excellent addition to Canon's L series collection of lenses!An excellent addition to Canon's L series collection of lenses, the EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM offers outstanding optics, reliable performance and a refined design, featuring the quality professionals and advanced photographers demand. Engineered to complement Canon's high-resolution camera sensors, it's poised to deliver phenomenal image quality in any number of applications.Capturing the right momentA customizable electronic manual focusing ring helps ensure you'll get the shot that you want at the right moment. Three sensitivity levels are available to select how quick and precise you want to adjust the focus. This can help whether you need a slow speed to switch between someone's eyes in a distant profile, or a fast speed to dial in on different birds in a large, swiftly moving flock..

  • Product Features

    • Revised Optics for a Lighter Super Telephoto EF L Lens
    • Increased Heat Shielding Measures for Reliable, Longer Shooting Outdoors
    • Dust- and Water-resistant with Fluorine Coatings for Use Even in Harsh Conditions
    • Customizable Electronic Focusing Ring
    • Optical Image Stabilization at up to 5 Stops of Shake Correction
    • Wipe clean
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sfoAlan
4 years ago
from San Francisco, CA

re: the one bad review of 600 f/4 usm is iii

Looks to me more like diffraction softness than a lens defect. Most of the newer lenses are sharpest at around f/8 or f/11. While I appreciate the need for smaller f/stops with a 600mm lens, the difference in sharpness, whether lens performance or diffraction, though noticeable to a critical eye when enlarged to this extent, it is in my experience well within the capabilities to be equalized by the better sharpening programs say from Topaz Labs, ON 1, Projects and Landscape Pro. I am less sure of the ancient sharpening algorithm used by PS but I find that every digital photograph I've seen in the past 10 years, no matter what the lens/camera combination, benefit by some post shooting sharpening. I photograph mostly fast moving objects, airplanes, birds and cars, so having a lens that weighs almost 2# less, has better balance and may focus just a little faster matters quite a lot to me when photographing two airplanes converging on each other at 1000 ft/sec. And the weight and balance matters even more when you are at events that last 6-7 hours. I also am a user of the 1DX III and the full range of Canon EF lenses from 11mm-600mm -sfoAlan

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DominickT
6 years ago
from Cave Creek Arizona

690mm usmIII

Hemingway, even at his sesquipedalian best would fail to provide sufficient praise for a lens of this caliber. Mind you, the circus I went through to purchase it bears mentioning; Over a certain price threshold the accounting department requires a wire transfer, but nobody will inform you at the time of purchase. No email is sent out, one must wait on a phone call they do not anticipate. I did not receive this call, and endured some less-than-productive time being anointed with idiotic opinions from the staff of an indifferent call center. FORTUNATELY!! A member of the Executive Response Team stepped in and took personal oversight of the situation until everything was resolved. As for the quality of the lens? I’m still overwhelmed with a feeling of near enlightenment with the luscious background blurring from such a perfectly designed aperture. The weight savings is so gloriously noticeable that your inner soul will feast upon it with every mile hiked, and every rapid shot taken. Honestly the best part is being able to drop that gem of a line from Ferris Bueller the rest of your life, “If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.”

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A33
6 years ago
from Rhode Island, USA

Unacceptable for purpose of "weight saving" in an already bulky lens

Please, Canon. I am a die hard user of Canon, and nothing else. You MUST continue the production of the 600 L IS II for the day mine eventually fails. The 600 f/4 lens is the most integral piece of imaging equipment next to the flagship sports body( more so actually). The real life experience using it is that it's "unusable" compared to the "Version II" EF 600 f/4L IS II. This product will be the first ever negative experience I have ever had with Canon shooting them my entire life and owning nearly every professional Lens and camera. The I.S is nothing short of defective. "flawed" would be an inappropriate understatement. But maybe even worse, the image quality is not on par with the Version II, whether it be with teleconverters or not. I would be totally happy if Canon continued the production of the Version II. I would literally pay more for it, and I already own 1 copy of the Version II ( it would be for a duplicate backup because it's the best lens I've ever used in my entire life, (along with the EF 50 1.2L). While you're at it, please continue production of the EF400 2.8 L IS II as even that lens has superior image quality to it's version III counterpart. Trust me, No one is buying these lenses for connivence, the weight savings between the Version I IS and Version II was much more significant to the usability and also the image quality was IMPROVED, instead of reduced.

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Merrill
7 years ago

Best tele I have used

An amazing lens- quality of photos is unparalleled, light weight for such a long lens, and properties are really useful. The lens is very hand holdable which makes it useful in situations where setting up a tripod is not possible or there isn’t enough time to set one up and still get the shot. I didn’t think about having the ability to preset focus points when purchasing the lens, but find that really useful in the field with bird photography. It will also be good when photographing wildlife. It is expensive, will be used much more than I even thought.

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Daniel123
7 years ago

Great lens with one major issue.

I have bought this lens in April and just could'nt believe how light it was and the perfect balance it has. It makes the old 600II feel like it has twice the weight of the new one. In good light the lens is sharp and a joy to use. However, when I have begun to actually us it in the field I have noticed that the images looked very bad when using it in low light with a 5D4. Below 1/250s the images are unusable. They are displaying a vertical blur no matter the settings. I've tried the lens on 4 different 5d4 and it's always the same. All users I know have the same issue. This is unacceptable for a supertele and there is no answer to this, yet. Again unacceptable. Stick to the old one until Canon gets it fixed.

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Loving Wildlife Cindy
7 years ago
from Rural New York State

A Must Have For Wildlife Photography

I've always wanted a long lens for wildlife photography. I'm older & was unsure if I could handle the weight of the 600 & 800 mm lenses. So when this new version came out & was lighter, I decided this was the "one". It's not so heavy that I can't hand hold it. I've used it for distance pics & as a Macro Lens. I'm glad I purchased it.

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External reviewer
7 years ago

Great price

i bought this a month ago... it has gone past my expectations for the fair and somewhat cheap price. overall this product is a must if you are starting photography.

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