Usm Motor. Sharp pictures... cheap price.... 58 mm filter size..... has a good feel to it... handling is quite nice

No IS :( No hood included fairly slow.... hunts in low light. no internal focus.

this lense...although i did borrow it....is rather inexpensive....$400 canadian roughly. Now that right there tells the story. It's a telephoto zoom lense for the enthusiast looking for a telephoto zoom to get them that range. Fine for outdoors, for evey day use....i can see the typical "family man" taking this lens to his son or daughter's soccer game. The build is average. There really isn't anything amazing about this lense....it takes good shots....crisp for the most part from 75 to 300, but being at 5.6 at 300, mind your shutter speed, for any shake will blur. Color rendition is questionable, and the usm is great.....although would be better if it had Internal focus. Overall...good lense for someone looking for a nice chunk of range for shooting outdoors and subjects at a distance. I was actually surprised at how some shots turned out in low light...at 300 with shutter speeds of 1/60 and less handheld....a little soft, but for the everyday joe who wants a lense for this purpose, very acceptable.

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good good....easy to talk to...just waiting for my dream lense (100-400)and pending on how soon it gets here....i'll tell you more.

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Sigma 100 - 300 4.5 - 5.6 ( comparable-sigma produced more natural colors)

Cheap

And acts like it!

Cheap but not that cheerful. Bought it on impulse because I was on holiday and it was cheap, thought it would be okay for holiday snaps - hmmmm. Well, it''s soft, poorly built, SLOW (even on eos3 - yeah I know), oh, and USM might be quiet to humans but it scares the **** out of most small animals! It really is a budget lens, but on budget cameras (eos 300 etc) the AF is painfully slow. This is a BAD lens. Getting a 100-300 sigma now - MUCH better lens. Apparantly canons 100-300mmm usm is a lot better, not a hard task but I would get saving.

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Not really that similar but... Canon 300mm F4 L IS Sigma 100-300mm F4 EX HSM

1. Excellent for female portraits at 85, 105 and 135mm. 2. Very low priced 3. Very light, good for travel photography too.

1. Very soft at large apertures (4.5, 5.6, 8) 2. Lacks contrast 3. rather slow! 4. Rotating front element

This is an excellent lens for the price (US$200). But it''s probably not for those who want to shoot in dim light conditions because it''s rather slow and low-end canon bodies (rebel-G or rebel 2000) can''t handle the autofocus for such a slow lens in the said scenario. You will have slightly (much?) better results if you use this lens with the Elan 7 or the high end bodies like eos-3. But then, if you can afford to buy an eos-3 or eos-1n, you wouldn''t want to touch this ''cheap'' lens anyway! For fast action photography, you need to be able to preset the focus manually since the autofocus is rather slow (as with most lens at the long end of med-telephoto). Furthermore, at the the long end (between 200-300mm), unless you stop the lens down to f/11 or f/16, your photos will come out looking soft and low in contrast. I shot some water-fowl at 300mm at f/5.6 and f/8, and the photo looked like it was out of focus, when enlarged. I thought I must have misfocusses and tried again, with the same results. Plus, the colours looked rather dull even in bright sunlight. So, I then tried at f/11 and f/16 at 135mm, 200mm and 300mm. This time the photos looked much better at all focal lengths, though the 135mm ones looked a much sharper than the 300mm ones (as expected). On the other hand, if you like to do portraits, esp. of women, you will find that this is a great lens for the price. The low contrast and softness gives that dreamy look that''s so flattering! You probably won''t even need a diffusing filter :) One thing that irritates me the most is that the front element rotates when you focus. So, it''s hard to use a circular polarizer cause, you''ll have to focus BEFORE you use the polarizer. Then turn the polarizer ring while making sure that you aren''t disturbing the focus! Ditto with graduated filters. If you are trying to use the filters when focusing in manual mode, you might as well forget it! ...the focus ring turns too easily making it hard to keep the focus while adjusting the filter ring. In summary, if you lack a lens in this zoom range, it''s an excellent value for money. It will do a good job in bright-light outdoors or with female portraits. But if you need to capture hi-speed or low-light action, or tack-sharp wild-life, look elsewhere. I am quite happy with it though; it serves my purpose. But if I had money to burn, I would get the 100-

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Never needed any so far!

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EF 28-200mm USM, Ef 20-35 USM f/3.5-4.5, Ef 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 USM IS

1. Excellent for female portraits at 85, 105 and 135mm. 2. Very low priced 3. Very light, good for travel photography too.

1. Very soft at large apertures (4.5, 5.6, 8) 2. Lacks contrast 3. rather slow! 4. Rotating front element

This is an excellent lens for the price (US$200). But it''s probably not for those who want to shoot in dim light conditions because it''s rather slow and low-end canon bodies (rebel-G or rebel 2000) can''t handle the autofocus for such a slow lens in the said scenario. You will have slightly (much?) better results if you use this lens with the Elan 7 or the high end bodies like eos-3. But then, if you can afford to buy an eos-3 or eos-1n, you wouldn''t want to touch this ''cheap'' lens anyway! For fast action photography, you need to be able to preset the focus manually since the autofocus is rather slow (as with most lens at the long end of med-telephoto). Furthermore, at the the long end (between 200-300mm), unless you stop the lens down to f/11 or f/16, your photos will come out looking soft and low in contrast. I shot some water-fowl at 300mm at f/5.6 and f/8, and the photo looked like it was out of focus, when enlarged. I thought I must have misfocusses and tried again, with the same results. Plus, the colours looked rather dull even in bright sunlight. So, I then tried at f/11 and f/16 at 135mm, 200mm and 300mm. This time the photos looked much better at all focal lengths, though the 135mm ones looked a much sharper than the 300mm ones (as expected). On the other hand, if you like to do portraits, esp. of women, you will find that this is a great lens for the price. The low contrast and softness gives that dreamy look that''s so flattering! You probably won''t even need a diffusing filter :) One thing that irritates me the most is that the front element rotates when you focus. So, it''s hard to use a circular polarizer cause, you''ll have to focus BEFORE you use the polarizer. Then turn the polarizer ring while making sure that you aren''t disturbing the focus! Ditto with graduated filters. If you are trying to use the filters when focusing in manual mode, you might as well forget it! ...the focus ring turns too easily making it hard to keep the focus while adjusting the filter ring. In summary, if you lack a lens in this zoom range, it''s an excellent value for money. It will do a good job in bright-light outdoors or with female portraits. But if you need to capture hi-speed or low-light action, or tack-sharp wild-life, look elsewhere. I am quite happy with it though; it serves my purpose. But if I had money to burn, I would get the 100-

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Never needed any so far!

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EF 28-200mm USM, Ef 20-35 USM f/3.5-4.5, Ef 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 USM IS

Relatively sharp. Great focal range.

Plastic feel. A bit slow but then it''s a 75-300.

This lens has been my most heavily used since I bought it. I do a lot of stage and performance coverage, so the 300mm is great for isolating subjects and for facial close up. It''s pretty sharp for a consumer lens. Though it''s a bit slow, I usually compensate using faster speed film. It hunts in dim conditions a bit if you are using lower end cameras but I had no problems with it on my EOS 3.

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None needed yet.

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Tamron 28-200mm. Canon 100-300mm

Fast, Cheap, etc.

A little heavy (but hey its a 75-300)

I have used this lens when shooting skiers outside and when shooting birds! It works great and I love it. I have it coupled with a EOS-3 and works great. Lens is fast and a must have.

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A variety of Nikon Lenses and Bodies.

Good zoom range, quiet (good for not disturbing birds), fast to focus. Image quality is quite good even at full zoom.

Feels cheap. I don''''t like the way it telescopes as it zooms. Even Ritz''''s Quantaray stays at the same length as it zooms.

Needed the 300mm for photographing hawks. Works great for that. Considering the price, I have no qualms about recommending this lens.

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Vivitar, Quantaray

very light, sharp enough for digital imaging.

mechanical structure not so strong

I normally use a film scanner (CanonScan Fs 2710)and believe me, really is not necessary to buy more expensive lenses. Sharpness, on condition to stop down to 5,6 or 8, is much more than sufficient to get very nice pictures by means of a photographic printer (I''m using now an Epson Stylus Photo 700). Should you need more details, please contact me, i''ll be happy to pass you all informations based on my experience.

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Canon 100 macro, Canon 35-80

Sharp, cheap.

Slow.

This is an excellent beginner telephoto zoom. I own several cheap USM Canon lenses and this is by far the sharpest one of them. I consider it to be a perfect choice for an amateur (i.e. me) that does not have a whole buch of money to spend.

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Never had to use any.

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Canon 50, Canon 28-80 USM, Tokina 19-35.

Lightweight.

Focuses quickly. No hunting.

Good construction relative to cost.

Good value.

A little plasticky.

Good lense for amateurs. Yes it's only f5.6 at 300mm and maybe a little soft, but until I can afford the 100 - 400L IS beauty it'll do me.

Good Value!

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Sigma 70 - 300 (zooms in opposite direction to Canon lenses)