Today we are going to talk about the Canon 100-400mm L IS II USM Lens
This lens is fantastic, great glass, amazing resolution, quick focusing and some really sharp photos which you can see in the video. If you are looking to buy this lens they retail at about $1800 from Canon or you can purchase a quality used L series lens from many good providers of used inspected photography equipment retailers. 
Here is the Canon sale for this item, the refurbished price is only about $150 cheaper than the brand new version.
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The gear I used to film/edit this video and its content:
Canon EOS 5DS-R
Canon 11-24mm Fisheye Ultrasonic Lens
Oben Tripod

Gear seen in this video:
Canon 100-400mm L IS II USM 
77 UV Filter Level 1

I have to highly recommend this 100-400mm lens, I have been super happy with it, The 3 stabilizer modes are so useful (more on that soon), the internal gimbal is quiet as a mouse unless you are using a canon adaptor, then it will produce some white noise.

I played around with modes 1 and 3 and found for this type of shooting mode 2 is best. 
Mode 1 is general use.
Mode 3 turns off the stabilizer to help focus quicker but turns it on just before the shot, great for sports photos, not great for video.
I wanted to test out the lens without a tripod and this setup did very well. 
I was running around the wake park getting different angles, the clouds were moving and casting shadows, so my ISO was on auto but the EOSR and the 100-400mm lens really did well at f4.5 

I have gotten better photo resolution by using the 5DSR camera body with this lens when shooting night and astrophotography which is covered in this video, the photos of the moon were taken at f11 all the way up to f22 just as a test. The best performance at night was actually captured using a UV 77 filter, which surprised me but hey, whatever works!

I also shot from a floating dock for a few scenes and was amazed how well the camera tracked wake boarders and wake skaters moving at about 21mph while I was floating and bobbing around. 
I have done this test from this same dock with other gear and this setup did the best, I was also at around 2/3 full zoom, while on a floating dock, getting this quality video...Wow Canon!
In today's video we are going to go through exactly what settings and what types of equipment I use when trying to catch that perfect wake boarding photo.

No matter what type of sports photography you are shooting, baseball, soccer, football or snowboarding, you have got to know the basics which is what we are covering here. 

Thanks for watching, keep on shooting!

You do not need an expensive camera or expensive heavy lens like my Canon 100-400mmL IS USM II to capture great sports video or action video shots, I have worked with smaller lenses and as long as the stabilizer is good quality you can get great videos.

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