Help me Choose Canon Lens

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Ok fellas,

Need you experiences good or bad on these lenses, as am definately getting one next week:

1. Canon EF-S 55-250mm f4-5.6 IS

2. Canon EF 70-200mm f4L USM

3. Canon EF 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 IS USM


Thanks,
 
I only have experience of the 70-200L. Great build quality, superb optics, can't fault it in any way whatsoever. And it's white(ish).
 
Depends on what you want to use it for ?

I have no experience of the EF-S 55-250 but I can tell you that the FE-S series of lens will only fit Canon " D, APS-C image sensor " cameras, so if you want to trade up to a full frame you cant use that mount.

The Canon EF 70-200 is top banana in my book, it lives on my Canon 40D and I use it for most of my animal portrait stuff.

No experience of the 70-300, but you do pay quite a bit extra for IS, plus extra weight . My 70-200 is non IS and I don't miss it.

Hope this helps a little. I'm sure others will chime in with there views.

Thanks
Steve;)
 
Was leaning towards the 70-200 f/4L got to admit, have a 17-85is, so think this will compliment it??

Yes will be used for some wildlife, and possibly sons football maybe be a bit short for this, how do you guys get on with hand holding it without the IS.


Victor
 
I've posted a few times now about the 55-250 IS, and each and every time said I can't fault it. For the money I think its a cracking lens. Nice and lightweight to carry around all day, decent build quality and very good image quality.

As said though, if you want to trade up to a full-frame sensor (which I just have!) the lens becomes obsolete :(
 
I was deciding on this sort of range recently. I went with the 55-250mm for the following reasons:

- Not upgrading to FF anytime soon.
- A little cheaper.
- 50mm extra reach.
- Excellent image quality (comparable with L lenses according to a lot of reviews).
- IS (which really works - I was shooting at shutter speeds of 1/50 with it just yesterday and the images came out fine).
- Lighter / not white.

So there you go. But having said that, I don't think you'd be going wrong with the 70-200 if you chose that.
 
55-250 IS gets a brilliant report in the latest photo magazine (the Canon specific one), showing much better IQ than the 70-300 and the Sigma APO 70-300.

All depends on what you want it for though..

55-250 has IS and is less than half the price of the 70-200mm

Its not L glass of course, all depends how much you value any extra IQ - the results of the 55-250 are mighty impressive for the price.
 
In my view the 50-250mm is a cracking lens for quality and price. The IS works well and the lens handles well. I use mine on a 400D. I've seen this lens at £156 at Onestop-Digital.

Paul
 
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