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Customer Reviews for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Model: C21-9892
SKU: 2823760
UPC: 082966214073
This compact, lightweight, wide-angle telephoto zoom includes full auto aperture metering and manual focus to capture the details you want. Learn about different types of lenses ›
Average Customer Rating:
4.2
out of 5
(76 Reviews) 76
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Customer Reviews for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Review 1 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Great Lens for a Beginner Like Me
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: Price, Zoom, Picture Quality
What's not so great: Nothing
I have read the reviews for this lens and the Canon Image Stabilization with UVM which costs around $650 at the time. I mainly use this lens for my kids' outdoor sports activities (soccer, baseball, etc.) I have used it for a couple of months under a variety of light conditions from full sun to very overcast. I have been very happy with the quick focus time and picture quality. I usually use a monopod to help with image stabilization and reduce any blurry pictures. I have not encountered any problems with either.
I decided to purchase this entry level lens based upon my skill level. I did not think an extra $500 for IS and UVM motor would give me $500 worth of better pictures at my current skill level.
The lens is lightweight and does not get heavy while carrying it or strapped around my neck.
I have not used it for any indoor photography because I have not had a need. I can not say how well it performs in lower light situations such as indoors. I am extremely happy I purchased this lens.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 2 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Takes time to get use to this lens
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
4.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Durability
3.0
Seems to be a really good lens i just dont use it a whole lot its quite a bit harder then the smaller lens to use
I would recommend this to a friend!
-2points
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Review 3 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Great lens for beginner
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Lynno
from Westminster,CA
on 05/07/2012
What's great about it: Easy to use
I bought this lens for my son’s soccer games. The close up are great. I am very happy with my lens.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 4 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Great Lens
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: liked the zoom
I liked the zoom range have used it for some great shots
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 5 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
great lense
Customer Rating
5.0
What's great about it: ease of use
What's not so great: without flash accessory tough to use in dark lit pics
This was easy to use focused easily and well built took all action shots well
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 6 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Great lens at a good price!
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: Image Quality, Heavy-Duty Lens
What's not so great: Nothing
I use my camera lens for everything, mainly baseball games. The image quality is excellent! This lens is heavy-duty. I prefer you to get this if you are looking to capture close up images.
I would recommend this to a friend!
-4points
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Review 7 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Good lens for freelance photography
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: elbel
on 04/07/2012
Value for Price
4.0
Image Quality
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Durability
5.0
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What's great about it: durable
What's not so great: soft, focusing problems
This lens is great for when you need a nice zoom, but it definitely isn't the best deal out there if you're wanting to pursue a career in photography. As some other people have said, this lens makes very soft pictures, so they aren't meant to be printed in big sizes. A lot of the time (at least mine) it doesn't want to focus, so I end up manually focusing a lot, which makes the pictures look even softer. And with a low aperature, instead of having a blurring effect, it creates a more lined background (example in the picture of the girl sledding). I've dropped it a couple of times and it still works perfectly, so that's definitely a plus!
I would recommend this to a friend!
+6points
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Review 8 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Works Great
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: JJJJMMM
from Kansas
on 04/02/2012
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: Everything
What's not so great: Nothing
Not a professional photographer by any means. Just wanted a zoom lense for my Canon to take pictures of my kid at college baseball games. Works great for what I need.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 9 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Excellent
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
This lens has amazing quality even at a far distance. Excellent! Highly suggest this one!
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 10 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Great Lens for kids events & vacations
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: Bringing those far away shots close up
What's not so great: Thie size
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
I would recommend this to a friend!
+9points
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Review 11 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Does what it's supposed to
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: Price and good range
What's not so great: Nothing
I don't know what could be bad about a lens. But it was a great price and works great. Has a good range for my dslr.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+5points
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Review 12 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Awesome lens
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
This lens combined with the shutter speed of camera, great for my daughter's 11v11 soccer games!!!
I would recommend this to a friend!
+6points
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Review 13 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
great item
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: the price was great
im new in the photography area. but i love it and great for the price
I would recommend this to a friend!
+5points
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Review 14 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Great lens for amateur photographer
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Sniff
from Maui
on 01/16/2012
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: Best Buy had the best price
I've always had Cannon 35 mm cameras and lens. When I got the digetal, I knew in time I would get the zoom to go with it even though I have many other good lens that work. The image stablizer for a zoom is very helpful. It's very easy to change the lens as long as you line up the dots just right.
Great pictures!
Great pictures!
I would recommend this to a friend!
+4points
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Review 15 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Very Good for the Price
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Durability
4.0
What's great about it: Price, image quality
What's not so great: Nothing so far
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.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+29points
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Review 16 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Great camera lens
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: lemia
from houston
on 01/15/2012
Value for Price
4.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
4.0
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What's great about it: Easy to set up, good price, clear picture
What's not so great: a little heave to carry
i love using it , but it's a little heavy to carry in the bag beside that it's amazing
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 17 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Excellent complement ..
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
4.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Durability
4.0
Great sports shots ... long distance shots -- very stable -- very clear.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+5points
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Review 18 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
inexpensive zoom
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: fotosrfun
from St.Pete,Fl
on 01/02/2012
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
4.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
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What's great about it: inexpensive,good zoom range
What's not so great: no IS
This is a good zoom for beggining.Good image quality in outdoors.Best if used with a tripod or monopod.There is no image stablizer so the futher you zoom the steadier the camera has to be.On the plus side with it being an EF lens you can buy an inexpensive teleconverter and double your zoom.All in all a good lens for being part of a package. I probably would have purchased seperatly if it wasn't offered.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+9points
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Review 19 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Long distance lense
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: cdsal
from Bellefontaine, OH
on 12/03/2011
Value for Price
5.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
5.0
What's great about it: auto focus feature and distance on pictures
What's not so great: heavy
I got this lense with my canon dslr camera in a package grouping. It is a nice lense and can be heavy when it is placed on the canon t3 camera. I would recommend using a tri-pod when using this lense. It will help from blurry pictures. Use the auto focus when you don't want to adjust it yourself, other than that go wild with the other features the camera has to help you take great pictures.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+7points
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Review 20 for Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens for Select Canon SLR Cameras
Quick Review and Test
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: ParagonePictures
from Wichita, Kansas
on 11/21/2011
Value for Price
4.0
Image Quality
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Durability
4.0
Video Review:
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What's not so great: Could use stabilizer
Overall its a good Lens, however a stabilizer would be nice. Watch my video to see my review and test.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+41points
43out of 45found this review helpful.
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