Customer Ratings & Reviews

Heavy and hard to handle. Does not add much zoom at all

It is a little difficult to use it. I thought it was easier, but it is ok.

Just to slow to shoot the action photos I wanted.. Had to return.

Meets needs. Reasonable utility. Works well. Fits well.

I havn't used it enough to understand the features

I use this lens a lot. Im starting to use it more than my $600.00 EF-S 28-55 lens. It takes great close ups, from a very long distance, they are very clear with great detail. It is lightweight and well made. The resolution and color in the photos is very good. Ive taken some very impressive wildlife shots with this lens. I generally use a tripod or brace the lens against a solid object for long shots and it does just fine. I use it on my Canon EOS Xti. The auto focus or manual focus work equally well. It focuses acurately and quickly on auto focus. You cant beat this telephoto lens for the price and Canon quality. Its a great lens, I love it. It may not be the best one they make, but for my use and budget its awesome. I recommend it to anyone wanting a decent telephoto lens without spending a fortune. It works just fine.

This was a gift for a new photographer. She loved it from start. She was able to get better close ups on the basketball court.

This lens doesn't offer stabilizer. though it is cheaper enough to attract customers. But not recommending to purchase it

Love this lens and the selections were spot on The guys in the camera dept know their stuff. RIM location that is

Works great just no auto focus, wasn't what expected. Non the less functions as it should.

I have a Canon EOS 60D so I am not sure if it is a compatability issue or not but this lense did not work on my camera. It had extreme difficulty focusing and the picture quality was very disappointing. I have a 35mm - 150mm lense from my old AE1 that I was looking to replace but the old lense far outperforms this lense in all ways.

Unfortunately this was suggested with the camera purchase an is not compatible. As it is past 15 day return window window ( gift) it is not returnable

We use this lens all the time, to help us get up closer when our children are doing their sporting events and school programs. It doesn't even matter if we are at the back row, it helps bring us much closer to get a good to great picture. I am a new user, but find it extremely easy to use. The only issue is getting used to the length of the lens, and can be a little bulky in carrying around your neck. A case is a MUST have

Low level entry level lens, will need to upgrade!!

Lens did not fit the camera, nothing in description stated I would need an adapter that cost 100.00.

I would rather buy the lens that covers the wider range and includes the lower range as well.

I originally got this lens for an older canon D60 that I got for around $100. And it worked great with that camera. Then I upgraded earlier to a Canon T2I, and it works flawlessly with that camera too. I can't see how anyone can give this less than 5 stars. It's not as great as a $3,000 lens, but what do people expect? It's easy to use, and works well. The only problem I did have, was I only had this lens when I went to Disneyland with my daughter, and I had to use it when I couldn't use the zoom. (When Disney characters were holding her, I had to back up about 20' before I could take the shot) That's not great. But nobody should expect to be taking pictures that can be taken with a point and shoot or a camera phone with this lens.

This is the basic zoom lens in the canon line. I was very impressed with it. Quiet adjustment and it has an excellent clarity. I shot some players at the rays game from 28 rows above first base and could zoom right in on the left fielders. I'm very happy with this lens.

I got a great deal on this lens, but ended up taking it back and trading it for the 55-250 IS zoom after one day. It isn't a bad lens..it is just an older model and doesn't have the image stabilization feature of some of the newer Canon lenses. It took beautiful portraits. At the higher zoom levels even in late afternoon sun the flash kept trying to pop up. I could over ride the flash and hand hold the camera successfully, but the images were just a little less sharp than I wanted..plus I felt that with the newer Canon camera, the older lens wasn't taking full advantage of the camera. I also found myself having to switch to the 18-55 lens because this zoom starts at 75..inside the house it is too much zoom to do much of anything. Outside it was fine..though maybe my eye is used to about the 50-80 range so I kept needing to back up to get the composition I wanted. I also got a little tired of fighting with the flash in full daylight.. I decided to take it back and upgrade to the 55-250 zoom that has Image Stabilization. I haven't tested the new lens as much as I did this one..but I liked the 55-250 better the minute I got it onto the camera. The 55-250 isn't quite as awkward as the 70-300 and is much quicker to auto focus even in lower light. I walked outside and shot photos that were much sharper than the 70-300 without even really trying...I just had it on auto and shot. With the 70-300 I could take beautiful photos, but I was having to constantly fake out the camera to keep the flash from firing. The price difference with the camera bundle was only $50..so it seemed worth it to pay the extra money for a much better lens. Thank you to the very understanding customer service representatives that let me trade in the package for the better lens.

I was hesitant about getting this lens due to the number of poor reviews it has recieved. I figured that for $199 I could try it out and if it was as bad as I'd heard i could always return it. Well let me say, this has to be on of the best values in zoom lenses out there. I have used this for shooting my daughters basketball games, portraits, both indoor and outdoors, and some landscape. I have found it to focus fairly quickly, I have yet to find a situation where it would AF. As long as i have used appropriate shutter speeds, i have had no issues with soft images at any focal range. Most of my basketball shots have been shot at 200-300mm with very good results. If you are looking for a zoom at a good price, that will give you good images, this would be a very good choice. My advice would be to get it and check for yourself, don't be reliant on those who may or may not know what they are talking about. There are just too many who have an opinion on the internet these days, and you just don't know what their background may be. Just be careful and judge for yourself, acceptable sharpness is based on and 8 X 10 photo deemed acceptable at arms length. This lens gives you that sharpness.