Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great lens with fast enough speed and wide enough aperture for hand held shooting

Excellent lens for the price, and includes water resistance to go with my Canon.

I replace a previous lense with this one after a robbery. Very satisfied with this lense

My husband loves the lens. It does everything he wants it too when taking sports pictures.

Well I purchased and I returned The image quality is great. I bought it even though i knew it doesn't have tripod ring or a nice canon case. It is a fast lens but I returned for the 400mm L

This is not for a beginner .. However this lense is easy to use

I really wanted to keep love this lens, but being a semi-pro going pro it just didn't cut the grade. Right now in my business I just couldn't justify something that was this long and not compatible with at least the Kenko teleconverters. It will work, but not reliably and I missed far too many image captures for this to be a keeper lens. On the plus side as strictly a 70-300 range L lens this is a nice lens and produces very acceptable images. I thought I wouldn't mind the telescoping lens, but it' not for me. AF is fast and IS is superb. I hand held many captures of antelope, buffalo and moose with this lens and later on down the road when I have the extra change I might go for this lens, but to be realistic I can carry my 70-200 f/4 IS with the Kenko Proplus DGX 1.4x converter and get 280mm and identical image quality with a much more versatile package. Kudos to Best Buy for their trial period and the great way they handle returns. I'm opting for a Canon prime L, so that I can use an extender for the reach. GREAT lens for the Enthusiast, but still a bit heavy and not as versatile as the 70-200 f/4 IS with a high quality extender. IF you want to keep it simple and need weather seal and updated IS and AF then this is a go to lens with excellent optics.

This is a great lens but it takes some practice because it's much more capable than the basic version with the same zoom. It's also a bit on the heavy side. I use it primarily for outdoor shooting, including soccer games. Very happy with the results once I got used to it.

I love this lens! I am an amateur wildlife photographer and this lens is very sharp. I use it all the time without a tripod and have no issues at all! Great for bird photography.