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Canon EF 100-300 f/4.5-5.6 USM
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Sun April 15, 2007
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100% of reviewers
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£175.00
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7.0
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Description:
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Highly practical and portable telephoto zoom. The five zoom groups make the length only 121.5mm. With rear focusing, the lens does not change length or rotate during focusing. Any filter effects therefore remain intact. It also makes autofocusing quick and quiet.
Key Features
Type Zoom
Focal Range Telephoto
Lens Fitting Canon AF
Focusing Auto
Filter Size 58mm
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Canon EF 100-300 f/4.5-5.6 USM lens
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Author
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sejanus
Been here a while
Registered: September 2006
Posts: 326
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Review Date: Sun April 15, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: £175.00
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Pros:
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Well built; quiet operation; reliable
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Cons:
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Not as sharp as it might be at long end of range; zoom creep
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I've been using this lens for several years, first on film bodies and now on digital. It was bought originally to extend the range of my 28~105 USM and it's a good match to that lens.
Construction is very good. It's mostly plastic but Canon understand plastic, so that's no drawback. The controls are smooth and the full-time focus works very well with my cameras (620, 5 and 10D). The only constructional problem is zoom creep, when carrying the lens nose down. This doesn't show up in use so it's a minor irritation and one I'm prepared to forgive. The matching ET-65 II lens hood is just short enough not to cause cut-off at the wide end but deep enough for all other focal lengths.
Colour rendition seems pretty neutral to me although, if there is a bias, it's towards the warmer side compared with, say, my Nikon prime lenses. Given a solid support, sharpness is extremely good at f8 across the frame and all the way out to roughly 200mm, after which it softens a little. In most hand-held conditions, the sharpness even at the full 300mm is adequate but if you're interested in detailed images of, for example, birds, this is probably not the ideal lens to go for.
Focussing on all my cameras is remarkably fast, even at the long end of the range. The only problems seem to be with backlit subjects at longer focal lengths but I put this down to Canon's sensor designs. Interestingly, the best performer in this respect is the old 620. I have no idea why this should be so.
The thing to remember about this lens, above all else, is how inexpensive it is. There are certainly far sharper long zooms on the market but they'll cost several times as much as this one. It's also interesting to consider how well examples hold their value: looking around the web, I'm pretty sure I could sell mine for what I paid for it, which is a pretty clear indication of the regard in which the '1 to 300' is held.
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