Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM

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Best Price: $134

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    7.9 7.9 from 45 reviewers

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Pros & Cons

  • easily interchangeable, sharp focus, easy to clean, consistent output, low price
  • no manual focusing ring, decreased speed is on, like all zoom lenses, no distance scale, reliability is not good

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Manufacturer's Specs

Lens

  • Focal Length & Maximum Aperture
    75-300mm 1:4-5.6
  • Lens Construction
    13 elements in 9 groups
  • Diagonal Angle of View
    32° 11' - 8° 15'
  • Focus Adjustment
    Front group rotating extension system with USM
  • Closest Focusing Distance
    1.5m/ 4.9 ft.
  • Zoom System
    Rotating Type
  • Filter Size
    58mm
  • Max. Diameter x Length, Weight
    2.8" x 4.8", 16.8 oz. / 71mm x 122mm, 480g

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Compact and lightweight 4x telephoto zoom lens ideal for shooting sports, portraits, and wildlife. The newly developed Micro USM makes autofocusing quicker and quieter. The improved zoom mechanism …

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  1. Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens

    Reviewer: The Digital Picture
    29 October 2007

    Image Stabilization (IS) is a great feature. On the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens, IS lets you handhold two f-stops faster than without this feature. It costs a lot of money to buy a lens with a 2-stop faster aperture. Of course, IS is not everything - and cannot create background blur or stop action like a faster lens. Keep in mind that the version of IS on this lens needs to be turned off when tripod-mounted. Not doing so may cause the image stabilizer to act... Read more

  1. Its a lightweight proformance lense

    Reviewer: Adrian the rose photographer, CameraWorld.com
    24 August 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    I use it as my main lense, i am mainly a scenic/wildlife photog. Only thing i wish it had was a macro setting for close-ups for like roses, geraniums and the like. But for the most part a good all around telephoto lense, that I can use daily. Read more

  2. Reviewer: andgott, Epinions
    28 March 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    If you have a Canon Digital SLR, and just the kit lens that it came with, there is no doubt that you will sometime find yourself wishing that you had more zoom. Face it- That 18-55 that the camera came with just doesn't get you up close- where you really ... Read more

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