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 enlarge | Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $470.00
Buy New: $280.00
You Save: $190.00 (40%)
New (8) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $224.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Optical Zoom: 3
Maximum Focal Length: 300
Minimum Focal Length: 100
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 4.2
MPN: 2565A003
Model: EF 100-300mm/1:4,5-5,6 USM
UPC: 082966212611
EAN: 0082966212611
ASIN: B00004XOND
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Big step up on the 75-300 March 27, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The Canon EF 100-300 f/4.5-5.6 USM is the best entry level 300mm zoom lens. In order to do any better you have to get into Canon's L line which means a lot more money. Many people, including myself, start off with Canon's EF 75-300 f/4-5.6 III USM because of the low price. This lens won't break the bank but is definitely worth the difference. The build quality is much better on the 100-300. Also I have found this lens to be sharper. Along with that, this one has ring-type USM instead of micro USM so it focuses faster and quieter while allowing full time manual focus--you can manually adjust the focus without having to switch between AF and MF. Also, since it uses internal focusing, the front of the lens doesn't rotate or extend when focusing so it is easier to use a circular polarizer. For the money, you can't beat this lens.
 EF 100-300/4.5-5.6 Canon February 19, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an excellant lens for the reasonable price. A little soft at the high end of of the scale, but since its use is on a Canon DSLR there is alot of capacity and I seldom need to go that high. It matches well with my EF 28-105/3.5-4.5 lens.
Not bad...not bad at all September 7, 2006
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought this lens along with a couple of other Canon "prosumer" zooms several years ago when I switched from Nikon to Canon SLR's. I hadn't used it much until I recently rediscovered how useful it is.
See, I have the venerable 70-200/2.8L. That lens is truly outstanding. I use it a lot with the Canon EF 1.4X Extender which makes the 70-200 into a 98-280 f/4 zoom. When I got the 70-200, I pretty much stopped using the 100-300.
I recently realized that I carry the 70-200 around more than I actually use it. My most used lenses are in the normal to wide range unless I have a special purpose in mind that requires a longer focal length lens. But sometimes opprotunity presents the need for a long lens when you least expect it and, even though I was never a Boy Scout, I do like being prepared. The 100-300 is smaller and lighter than the 70-200/2.8L. It's a pretty sharp lens if you recognize its limitations. Limitations include being a notch or two down in sharpness at the 300mm end of the zoom range unless you stop it down to around f/11. At 200mm or shorter, it performs well even at maximum aperture even though it's not up to "L-series" optical quality.
It's not "L-series" quality in build either. It has a plastic barrel and the manual focusing ring was an afterthought. It grows in physical size when zoomed to the longer focal lengths. It sucks in dust by doing this (I have lots of speckles inside my lens to show this--but they have no affect on image quality). It also has an annoying tendency to zoom itself back and forth by its own weight. I carry a large rubber band around to keep this from happening if for some reason I use the lens on a tripod and tilt it up or down.
I like this lens more today than I did when I first bought it, despite the fact that the 70-200/2.8 is a much better lens on all fronts.
 so so August 3, 2005
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
at 300mm it is quite noisy rendering any professional use out the door. Great at 200mm and below not really worth the price
Great value for price; some caveats on performance November 15, 2004
45 out of 47 found this review helpful
I bought this lens along with a 28-105mm zoom to get a wide coverage of focal lengths for as little money as possible. At the same time, I wanted to maximize my sharpness at 300mm for bird and astronomy photography. If this is your goal, then this is the perfect lens. It is significantly sharper than the 75-300mm lens at 300mm, while still staying under $300. If saving money is your absolute priority, then go with the 75-300mm.
In the end, I have become dissatisfied with the sharpness at 300mm. As stated in other reviews, it really drops off after about 200mm. At full zoom, I am finding the softness intruding on my pictures so I have started using it only as a 100-200mm zoomer. The 1.6x crop on my Canon 300D makes up for this somewhat, but it's still a bit of a letdown.
Another aspect of this lens that I have found aggrivating is the tendancy for the lens to zoom/unzoom itself if mounted vertically. The weight of the forward elements is suffient to actuate the zooming mechanism. Sometimes this happens quickly and noticeably, but I've had long-exosure shots where the lens has slowly zoomed out during the exposure and ruined it (weird effect, but not what I was after). Astrophotography in particular tends to see frequent use of the lens in a vertical position and this lens is really not the right choice if you're going to be aiming up.
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