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Product Description
Avoid a stampeding rhino herd or a scrum of 10-year-old footballers when
taking your prize photographs. This compact and lightweight zoom lens is
ideal for shooting portraits, wildlife and sports. Zoom in on all the
action or get up close and personal to a solitary object with the smooth
zoom mechanism. The lens’ autofocusing function gets a clearer image
quicker and quieter for easy, stress-free picture taking. Made in USA.
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Product Reviews:
Is this lens as bad as some
people say it is? , April 8, 2006
Reviewer: A. Aljabri "abdul10000"
No it's not especially if you take into account its intended users. If you
use a Canon digital SLR and are satisfied with the kit lens (18-55) then
buying this lens can be the perfect next step for you. Practically
speaking, you will be able to increase your zoom reach to the point where
you can A) photograph birds in moderately distant trees, B) be able to
zoom in on the other side of a valley and frame something of your
interest. Those are just two examples. One thing you will NOT be able to
do effectively with this lens, however, is to take sport shots with it.
How so? Consider some of the following weakness:
*At 300mm zoom range the highest aperture is limited to 5.6 (You will have
to use very slow shutter speed to snap fast action shots; remember the
inverse relation between aperture and shutter speed.)
*The lens size/weight combination makes it hard to hold steady when
attached to a camera like the Rebel XT
*Slow and often inaccurate auto focus (I just don't understand why Canon
makes a USM version of this lens for $20 more, but never includes it in
the triple rebate program)
*Chromatic aberration is significant in high contrast lighting like in
full sun (if you do not know what Chromatic aberration means search the
term online or check out my review of the Canon 28mm 2.8 on Amazon, but to
summarize, it would be a discoloration at the fringes of objects in your
picture)
Those kinds of weakness will limit your ability to use this lens in all
sorts of other situations/circumstances. As a practical rule to follow, if
the lighting is less than ideal this lens will give you a hard time.
Meaning, it will be possible to use it, but you may get too many blurry
images because of shake from slow shutter speeds. As for what are ideal
lighting conditions? That would be full sun with few or no clouds and with
the light bathing your subject/object from the front or the side.
So is this lens that bad? Not really, as with many other lenses, when the
lens is coupled with a good camera it still out performs most Point and
Shoot cameras. Plus it provides results at par or slightly below the kit
lens (18-55). So if you are satisfied with your kit lens, which provides
you with a zoom range comparable to 3X zoom (55/18= 3), why not add
another lens that will expand your zoom range by another 4X (300/75=4)?
Nothing wrong with expanding your horizon!
PS. TWO MORE POINTS ABOUT USING THIS LENS: First, if you're confident you
can handhold this lens at slow shutter speeds (I know I can't) then the
low maximum aperture shouldn't be a major problem. Second, if you're fine
shooting at high ISO (more like 400 or 800) then again the low maximum
aperture shouldn't be a problem. The nice thing about photography is that
you can do one thing in so many ways, so don't be afraid to explore with
this lens!
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A Paper Lens, March 2, 2006
Reviewer: artmancm "Chris"
While this lens has an attractive price tag, this lens has serious trouble
with sharpness. Only at high shutter speeds (1/250 and above approx.) or
with a good flash and middle apertures (f/8 to f/22 approx.) does it
deliver sharp images. Horribly slow autofocus. I am already saving to buy
and L-series or the IS USM version.
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Shaky Hands, February 23, 2006
Reviewer: N. Tanner "TechnoPhile"
Be careful when you use this lens because it does not have IS (image
stabilizer) so if you have shaky hands and the exposure is any more than
1/8 of a second you are going to going to get some blur. This is why the
lens is so cheap. This is especially bad when you are at the far end
spectrum of this lens. If you are really zoomed in and it's cloudy then
you should know to use a tripod just in case. This goes for any lens, but
if you will be using the 300-mm end of this then use a tripod.
It's common sense, but I've loaned out this lens and they complained to me
afterwards.
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Excellent Product and Excellent Price, February 20, 2006
Reviewer: Johnny Ramos "Dr. Johnny Ramos"
The Canon EF 75-300mm is a Excellent product, I own the expensive USM
version and this lense doesn't have nothing to be jealous about it, it's
speed to focus is excellent,the main reason i bougth it is for my wildlife
photography while kayaking, I wouln't take the USM version on my kayak, to
expensive to get it wet, they both perform excellent, but the cheap price
of this lense make it affordable and risk proof for your pocket, it's a
little noisy but nothing that will affect it's use, plus it is a
intimidating peace of equipment, that will make any person think you are a
professional photographer
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