Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

Manufacturer:	Canon
List price:	~~$420.99~~
Our price:	$189.99 that is 55% off!

Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

Average rating: Stars

Canon makes crap too!

Canon really only has one difinitive brand that indicates pro and that's their "L" classicication. That said, you can tell by holding the lenses that they really have more gradients between quality than L and non-L. For instance, I love my 28-135mm IS USM lens and it seems that they spend a great deal more time building quality lenses for the ones recieving either a USM focusing motor, or that in combination with their really good IS image stabilization. By feel alone, you can tell which lenses are really the cheap lenses. This lens is a cheap lens.

It's not well put together, and though ~$200 isn't exactly peanuts, it's not going to get you a good 300mm lens as I've found out. People talk about the sharpness but unfairly, they compare it to the sharpness between the 28-135mm USM IS. That lens when wide open at 135mm isn't L lens or even $70 50mm 1.8/f levels of sharp, but it's definately not lagging behind too bad. Shots at virtually any focal length on this lens have noticable chromatic aberrations, huge flairs, and the sharpness is definately not up to snuff. You have to be ~5ft away for it to focus, which it does very slowly, and the lack of IS becomes apparent even at relatively fast shutter speeds.

I bought this lens at Best Buy and I will be returning it because it takes weak pictures, focuses slowly, and like my other budget lens, the afformentioned 50mm 1.8/f, I suspect it'll be unusable in no time from the horrible build quality. (The 50mm prime takes GREAT pics but I've got dust on the inner elements and I've only used it 4 or so times, and it's been in my bag with the caps on every other moment.

I'm no pro, but I could tell that this lens is a lemon.

Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras - Canon

Used with my new Rebel XT - Great!!!

I have nothing but good things to say about this lens. Although I have only had it a litle over a month, I have taken maybe 50 shots with this lens and am very pleased with the results.

Canon - Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

Good beginner lense, cheap but you get what you pay for...

I own a Canon 300D and a Canon Rebel GII... I started going Canon in October 2004 when I first found intrest in photography. For a teenage beginner this is a nice lense, my only problem with this lense is that the auto-focusing is extremely slow; I don't recommend this lense for action photography. If you don't have much money to spend and are thinking of buying this lense for action photography be ready to hone your manual focus skills.

Otherwise, it's a great camera for nice slow or still action. Plus I don't need this lense for action, because I'm always in the action!

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