I am debating between the 100-400 mm F4.5-5.6 L Lens and the 300 MM F4L Lens. Any advice?

I would like to purchase one of the two lenses listed above. Looking for advice? I will take mostly wildlife and some sports pictures. I want it to be super sharp! Thanks so much.
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Have you compared sample images?
They're both top glass and I think you'll find it difficult to declare that one is noticeably better than the other.  I think the 100-400mm is certainly a bit more versatile with the focal lengths (even though it loses a stop).
You can use a site like Pixel-Peeper... which doesn't really host their own images.  What they really do is index the images on Flickr -- scanning for images where the photographer leaves the image EXIF data intact so they are able to determine specifically which camera, lens model, and exposure settings were used to capture the shot.  The Pixel-Peeper community then "votes" on the images so the better examples taken by a given lens will float to the top of the list.
You can also search Flickr to see if there's a lens group for the lens.  I find that most lenses have a Flickr group -- but I find Pixel-Peeper to be a bit better because they scan everything ... not just the images contributed to a lens group.  I don't necessarily even "join" the lens groups for all the lenses I own... much less bother to post specific images to the groups.
300mm f/4:  http://www.pixel-peeper.com/lenses/?lens=39
100-400mm f/4.5-5.6:  http://www.pixel-peeper.com/lenses/?lens=589
Tim Campbell
5D II, 5D III, 60Da

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