Black, EF 75 - 300 mm f/4.0 - 5.6 III Filter Size 58 mm Zoom Lens (Not USM), 6 cm

I bought my Canon EF 75-300mm f4.0-5.6 III lens from an Amazon seller late last year. Used it on my Canon 1000D to take many photos of just about everything. It is surprisingly good. Yes it does "hunt" for focus in poor light (but so my much more expensive Tokina 400mm lens!). The lens isn't image stabilised (neither is the Tokina). My example has a nice smooth zooming action, and manual/auto focus. There is no focus lock on the barrel, so the lens does tend to "creep" open to it's full extent when being carried. It is a nice lightweight lens. I can carry the Canon all day with this lens fitted and hardly notice it. Photos with the Canon lens are crisp, with great colour rendition. I have not noticed any chromatic abberations yet. I find it takes clearest photos when at f8 to f16 range. (in otherwords, in summertime!). I will try and post some examples with this review. For the money, it is great value - and being a Canon lens, it is of good quality. Regards, Phil Edwards. North Wales.

I bought this via Amazon and it arrived right on time, had it for a while now and have used it for my holiday. It is great for wildlife photography and works well on my Canon 1100d. At first I thought the focusing was hard but is perfect with manual focus, especially for wildlife photography. I would not suggest the auto-focus when taking a snap of a bird, they move quickly and at 300mm it can take a while, but with manual focus it is excellent. I would recommend this to anyone for wildlife photography. Love the lens, its lightweight compared to a few others and was at a great price (you may want to add a UV filter to protect the lens or a lens hood) The only downfall is that it doesn't fit Canon's own extender and I now need one. However, I gave it 5 out of 5 because it is a fantastic telephoto lens, defiantly would use it in the future. ;-)

Brilliant telephoto lens for the amateur photographer! I am an A2 level photography student and wildlife photography is my passion, but the kit lens with my Canon 1100D didn't cut it terms of zooming capabilities. This lens fit the bill beautifully as it is wonderfully low in price compared to some of the other brands and variants out there yet there is no drop in quality to what I expect from Canon (which is very high). It isn't too heavy so it is wearable around your neck all day and it balances with the camera well so it isn't too top heavy. The focus can become the slightest bit soft at the full 300mm, but at that level you'd best use a tripod anyway and you can't expect a professional quality lens for under £100. I am now able to take lovely scenic and portrait images of my local wildlife and farmland with a fab budget lens.

Recently got a Canon 550D and was eager to get a longer range telephoto for it, primarily for astrophotography work using a basic motorised equatorial mount. While one of the L-series lenses would have been ideal, I'd have had to sell my camera to get one so I looked towards the ordinary EF zoom lenses as a more realistic proposition. I settled for the EF 75-300 f/4.0-5.6 III lens, partially because of the price and partially because I reasoned I wouldn't need the image stabilised version (which was more expensive) if I was taking night sky pictures. The lens arrived in good time and well packaged. It was smaller than I anticipated, but felt comfortably hefty in the hand. Attached to the 550D it felt weighty but not excessively so, although it was unlikely I would be walking about carrying it for any lenth of time. I suspected that if I had to carry it for a day out somewhere, I'd soon get tired of the weight. The majority of the lens body was black plastic, with the mount itself made of metal. Both the zoom and focusing rings were easy to discern to my fingertips. The lens itself was threaded for a 58mm filter (and a UV filter went on automatically to save the lens from any damage). Just bear in mind that the entire end of the lens rotates while focusing, so that if you were shooting with a graduated filter or a circular polarizer you might have to re-orientate the filter after focusing. Zooming out to 300mm the lens approximately doubles in length: the zoom action felt a little stiff, but that might be down to it being a new lens. On the good side, the lens didn't show any indication of 'lens creep' regardless of whether the lens was pointing up or down. Lifting and pointing the camera and lens combo was easy, although it required resting my elbows on something or bracing myself when shooting at the far end of the soom range. The pictures so far (mostly of birds about the feeders in the garden) have been reasonable if not brilliant. The lens clearly struggled with focus towards the far end of the zoom, occasionally searching for the focus and sometimes settling on something that was not being aimed for. In areas of better light (instead of birds in hedges) the lens was much better behaved, and was pretty spot-on. Reading the specs of the IS version, it probably wouldn't struggle as much as this one does in poorer light (although I've not had the opportunity to do a comparison). As far as astrophotography images go it's allowed me to take some pretty good images of the sky: having a 300mm lens has brought a host of new objects within reach (and with the 1.6x crop factor of the 550D, this worked out at a 480mm equivelent in 35mm terms). All I had to do was to remember to switch off the AF and manually focus the lens, and used the live view function whilst the camera was attached to a netbook running the camera control software from Canon. The size of the camera and lens combo is clearly getting to the point where the basic mount struggles to deal with the weight and star-trailing occurs as a reasult, so it looks like a larger, more capable mount might be my next purchase. So, is this lens any good? Yes, but with provisos. If you wanted a state of the art lens, then you'd clearly have steered towards the L-series (and probably wouldn't be reading this review anyway!). If you wanted something very capable, then the IS version of this lens would probably be a better bet. But if you wanted something that would work at a reasonable price, and you're willing to forgo the bells and whistles of later models, then I think this lens would be a pretty good investment.

I bought this lens about eight months ago for my Canon 350D. If like me you bought the kit that comes bundled with the 18-55mm lens you'll notice there is a big gap when it comes to zoom/telephoto shots, this is a great budget tele-photo zoom lens that does what it says on the tin, and fills the gap nicely. I am an amateur photographer at best and still learning, but after using the lens for a while I was disappointed to learn that the f stop values really do make a big difference - the widest aperture you will be able to set this lens to is 4.0 at 75mm and only 5.6 at 300mm, if your really serious you need a fast lens like f/2.8, and definitely with IS (image stabilisation) - the lens is not that heavy (for me), but during a long shoot it starts to feel like a cannon (pardon the pun), the lens really protrudes out at towards the 300mm end, and if you hold the camera pointing straight down, expect lens creep. Add an external flash onto the hot shoe and expect a real workout! My wife complains its way too heavy - especially with a speedlite mounted on top, just carry a tripod if you expect to be on a long shoot, or mount the external flash on a tripod (you'll need something like a speedlite wireless remote for this, expensive, but its tiny and weighs next to nothing and gets the speedlite off the camera). Having said all that, I have got some really great shots with this, and overall for the price you pay for this lens it's a real good value for money. If I'm going to a function, like a party within a hall, I would almost always use this lens (not to good for mid range shots - 50mm better for this, which is why I carry another camera to save swapping lenses about), great for candid photography where you can position yourself at the other side of the hall and take shots without distracting or letting your subjects know they are being shot - just have a strong arm, and good light conditions/flash. For portrait shots, and shots where you slow the shutter speed use a tripod, or you get too much blur/softness. If you also intend to pan the shot, a tripod with a panning handle is also essential. The other thing you need to bear in mind is the multiplication factor (of the focal length) of your camera. Unless your lucky enough to have a camera with the same focal length as a 35mm film camera, i.e. a full 35mm frame size, the camera may effectively crop the image to fit on the film sensor - the 350D has a factor of x1.6, this means this lens is effectively a 120mm - 480mm lens (!) This is great on the tele-photo side, you get more magnification than you pay for, but not so good for wide angle or down at the 75mm end, where you've actually got 120mm. (Because of this factor, if you want a wide-angle lens and you have a 350/400D then you'd be better off going for ultra wide 14mm). Bottom line, it's a heavy lens, and no IS, but for the price of the lens very good value for money! I haven't regretted buying this, and unless you're a really serious photographer, and shoot within the limits of this lens you wont either.

this purchase has made a budding photographer very happy and his friends envious. it is ideal for the job, at an excellent price and a good quality product from a known make. it does what is required without being too large or too heavy and is easy to use, and for an A level photography student is perfect as part of his initial 'kit'. I would definitley recommend this to any one else looking for this type of item to help them with their photos. it is a good mid-range size and range.

When you buy Canon you know it's going to work. This is an older design with a DC motor, however I'm using it with a EOS300X and 3000V both late film cameras and it works perfectly, which is more than I can say for the Tamron it replaced. Images are excellent on my test shots and surprising good in low light. For under £90 the lens is excellent value, the only thing it doesn't have is close up macro function.

My Canon EOS1100 D came with an 18-55mm lens as standard. I wanted a longer focal length lens and this 75-300mm lens fitted the bill. It's a reasonably priced lens which is ideal for people on a budget. It's switchable between AF and MF, (autofocus/manual focus), but it does NOT have the anti-shake system so you will need some sort of support when using the longer focal length. All in all a very good lens at a reasonable price, very good for amateur/hobby photographers.

Es un buen objetivo zoom, para iniciar en la fotografía esta muy bien, lo utilizo en una Canon EOS 700D puedes utilizarlo sin trípode siempre y cuando tengas buen pulso, es muy luminoso calidad precio está muy bien.

Good

Excellent

Impeccable, je peux enfin faire de belles photos en zoomant

Per il suo prezzo è una lente con una grande escursione focale che permette di fotografare molto lontano; non è tropicalizzato, ma nonostante ciò mi ha servito egregiamente in ogni condizione atmosferica. E rispetto ai fratelli più di qualità è molto leggero. La qualità d'immagine non è, ovviamente, alta (ma non fa schifo, specie alle focali più basse), ma 1) chi lo compra lo sa, e 2) per il suo prezzo, visti i pro elencati prima, è un'ottima lente per cominciare a fotografare se si sente che le lenti "normali" non arrivano dove si vuole arrivare.