Arthur Morris, the Canon bird photographer, offered one of his used 400 f5.6L's for sale in his newsletter recently for $500. I emailed him immediately because I have been looking for one and you never see them for sale, let alone that cheap. He told me it wasn't pretty cosmetically (no kidding) but that it just had a new lens mount put on it by Canon as well as the AF tuned.
Anyhow it's turned out to be a really sharp lens in spite of it's appearance so I'm really happy with it. Since Chris is gone to Shasta my new hobby will be shooting ducks!
It's actually way harder then it looks and is kind of fun! Anyhow here are some of my initial shots.
I look like a pro with this beat up set up!
This one's kind of funny, someone yelled at this skier "you can't do that" as this is in the new "no tow zone" (or will be) on weekends. I think she responded with an FU - Right on! LOL