I had a couple days before my vacation to Colorado, and I decided to finally buy a telephoto lenses. I waited so long because I am a child. I earn an allowance, but no where close to a job such as a lawn mower or baby sitter. Thus, my spending persona was very skeptical with my spending. My mantra was to wait a month or two and see if I still wanted the product, 9 times out of ten I wouldn’t. So I surprised myself when I splurged half of my savings on a zoom lenses. And I’m glad to say, it was worth it. However a steady hand is key. This doesn’t have image stabilization and you will have to rely on your iso and taking grainier photos as a trade off for blur in the pictures. If you’ve used a Wii for a long time it’s easier, but just be prepared. Still a great buy nonetheless. (How many more characters can I type?)
Eddie Grabon –
تم التقييم 5 من 5
Haley Munitz –
Fits EOS 4000D! Zooms out pretty far and keeps good quality. Easy install and easy use.
Haley Munitz –
تم التقييم 5 من 5
tammy –
This is a nice lens. I do have to watch my controls with this one because it doesn’t always seem to link up to the camera. I am inexperienced with using longer lenses so this may be something I have to learn with the camera and not necessarily a concern with the lens itself.
tammy –
تم التقييم 5 من 5
BBQ –
First off I’m going to say that I bought this lens used for $100. I read plenty of reviews and most of them talked about how the amount of sharpness gets really low when you get around 300mm. This is true. From my testing, 75-200mm seems to be the sweet spots for this lens. I shot a few pictures out in the woods at 75mm f/4 of my Dad and the bokeh was pretty awesome. I also shot some pictures of birds at 300mm and it’s just very unsharp the second you crop. The only way I’ve found to get good bird shots is to be really close to them. This is very difficult unless you’re at a popular park where the birds are fairly used to humans. Here is a picture I took at 300mm and is only very slightly cropped […] I was only a few feet from this bird. As you can see it’s a sharp image due to VERY minimal cropping. It is difficult to fill the frame with these little birds let alone get close to them. Here is another bird at the same exact place […] This was shot at 155mm, it was at Clingman’s Dome in Gatlinburg which is a very popular place which makes these birds fairly used to humans. I put down some nuts right next to myself and it walked right up and took them and that’s how I got this picture.
Pros and Cons
Pros: Takes great portraits at 75mm Very inexpensive for what it is Fairly well built for the price
Cons: You lose almost all sharpness once you crop above 250mm The zooming is not very smooth
Overall, who would I recommend this to?
I would recommend this to any beginner photographer who wants to take pictures of their family or friends that may also enjoying wildlife photography. This would also be a great lens for someone who doesn’t really care much about photography but wants a nice zoom lens to sit on their porch and take pictures of wildlife from far away (birds, deer, etc)
TL;DR: Overall great value, absolutely worth the buy.
BBQ –
تم التقييم 5 من 5
Melissa –
If you’re like me who’s only ever had access to a typical 17-85mm lens, this will change your photo taking game. While you do have to adjust for the added weight (blurry photos of not steady/tripod-ed), it’s so easy to just sit in one space & be able to focus on objects/animals close to 50 ft away.
Melissa –
تم التقييم 5 من 5
Chris –
I got this for my wife as one of her Christmas presents, and it’s just been a joy watching her get her tripod out and zoom in on the birds in the yard and take pics. It does a really good job and for the price point I don’t think it can be beat.
Eddie Grabon –
I had a couple days before my vacation to Colorado, and I decided to finally buy a telephoto lenses. I waited so long because I am a child. I earn an allowance, but no where close to a job such as a lawn mower or baby sitter. Thus, my spending persona was very skeptical with my spending. My mantra was to wait a month or two and see if I still wanted the product, 9 times out of ten I wouldn’t. So I surprised myself when I splurged half of my savings on a zoom lenses. And I’m glad to say, it was worth it. However a steady hand is key. This doesn’t have image stabilization and you will have to rely on your iso and taking grainier photos as a trade off for blur in the pictures. If you’ve used a Wii for a long time it’s easier, but just be prepared. Still a great buy nonetheless. (How many more characters can I type?)
Eddie Grabon –
Haley Munitz –
Fits EOS 4000D! Zooms out pretty far and keeps good quality. Easy install and easy use.
Haley Munitz –
tammy –
This is a nice lens. I do have to watch my controls with this one because it doesn’t always seem to link up to the camera. I am inexperienced with using longer lenses so this may be something I have to learn with the camera and not necessarily a concern with the lens itself.
tammy –
BBQ –
First off I’m going to say that I bought this lens used for $100. I read plenty of reviews and most of them talked about how the amount of sharpness gets really low when you get around 300mm. This is true. From my testing, 75-200mm seems to be the sweet spots for this lens. I shot a few pictures out in the woods at 75mm f/4 of my Dad and the bokeh was pretty awesome. I also shot some pictures of birds at 300mm and it’s just very unsharp the second you crop. The only way I’ve found to get good bird shots is to be really close to them. This is very difficult unless you’re at a popular park where the birds are fairly used to humans. Here is a picture I took at 300mm and is only very slightly cropped […] I was only a few feet from this bird. As you can see it’s a sharp image due to VERY minimal cropping. It is difficult to fill the frame with these little birds let alone get close to them. Here is another bird at the same exact place […] This was shot at 155mm, it was at Clingman’s Dome in Gatlinburg which is a very popular place which makes these birds fairly used to humans. I put down some nuts right next to myself and it walked right up and took them and that’s how I got this picture.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
Takes great portraits at 75mm
Very inexpensive for what it is
Fairly well built for the price
Cons:
You lose almost all sharpness once you crop above 250mm
The zooming is not very smooth
Overall, who would I recommend this to?
I would recommend this to any beginner photographer who wants to take pictures of their family or friends that may also enjoying wildlife photography. This would also be a great lens for someone who doesn’t really care much about photography but wants a nice zoom lens to sit on their porch and take pictures of wildlife from far away (birds, deer, etc)
TL;DR: Overall great value, absolutely worth the buy.
BBQ –
Melissa –
If you’re like me who’s only ever had access to a typical 17-85mm lens, this will change your photo taking game. While you do have to adjust for the added weight (blurry photos of not steady/tripod-ed), it’s so easy to just sit in one space & be able to focus on objects/animals close to 50 ft away.
Melissa –
Chris –
I got this for my wife as one of her Christmas presents, and it’s just been a joy watching her get her tripod out and zoom in on the birds in the yard and take pics. It does a really good job and for the price point I don’t think it can be beat.
Chris –