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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roy C" data-source="post: 1704752" data-attributes="member: 18798">You are quite at liberty to recommend whatever lens you like, obviously you have a preference for the 100-400 and that's fair enough but to slate everyone who has the 400/5.6 to say that any shot they take without a tripod cannot be decent is way out of line. You have no doubt upset many people on this forum by your comment. I have seen great shot from both lenses, they are both capable of very good shots.I think if you had argued that the 100-400 is more versatile and better suited to the novice because of the IS that would have been acceptable but to bluntly tell me and countless others that all our hand held shots with the 400/5.6 are basically crap and that we have not got a decent shot between us is out of order.The originator can make his mind up from mine and others pics as to whether or not they would be up to the standard he requires - if he think not then that's fair enough. BTW I do not even own the 400/5.6 now.</blockquote>