75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Zoom Lens

Grate for far shots

Pros: Good quality of far away shots

Cons: not good for any thing less that 2 from the lens

amazing lenses for the price worth every penny

Wonderful Purchase!

Pros: Great Zoom capability, Clear Images, Silent Focusing motor

Cons: None

I love this lens as it gives me a great chance to get a good photo of planes landing/taking off, Or at the race track when your stuck at a distance. I would recommend a lens between 200mm and 700mm over this 75-300mm though.

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Great Zoom Lens

Pros: Low price for big zoom

Cons: Has a hard time focusing sometimes

Great overall lens! Must have for your collection.

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Great Lens

Pros: price and performance

Cons: none

I bought this lens for my A300 and it has been great. the picture quality at full zoom is great, pictures are clear and the focusing time is quick. great for those wild life pictures and family pictures.

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Great Lense

Pros: Easy to use.

Cons: None

I bought this lense with my A300 camera. As of today every picture that I have taken are excellent. For a beginner like me, this is a good lense. I recomend it to any one that want to take good picture from the distance.

Good Lens

Pros: Fit to normal budget with good quality

Cons: Not yet

I have used this lens with a390 SLR, it works good and suitable for beginners, easy to use and it delivers encouraging, satisfactory, and acceptable pictures. I can recommend this lens because it gives great value at an affordable price.

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Very happy!!!!

Pros: Low Price , very good photos

Cons: Not for low light shooting

Excellent purchase. I am amateur and I have a camera SONY SLT A33. See the comments in this section I dared to buy this lens SAL75300. I am really very pleased with my investment. The results are very good.

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Great Lens for the Price!

Pros: Quick, Great Focus, Detail, Sharp

Cons: No Lock, Slides, Noise

This was the first lens I went and bought for my a330 (other than having the kit lens) and I am very pleased with it! It is quick and quite accurate when it's in auto. The only thing that really annoys me about this lens is that it slides, I really wish Sony put a lock on it. I take a lot of equine/canine images and I am always moving and having to walk a lot, so it gets really annoying having to recheck and make sure the lens isn't fully extended. Overall great lens for the price. I have since upgraded my camera body to a a65 and it works even better!

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Love this len's and its affordable

Pros: Takes great photos

I bought this b/c is a nice long rang zoon lens. I have taken nature shoots and also used for to wedding photos during the vows. It allows you to take the photos you want to capture while allowing your subject's space.

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No Complaints

Pros: Gets the job done

Cons: Could be sharper

Works. Great for the price.

Pictures Suffer Above 200mm

Pros: Inexpensive

Cons: Severe Chromatic Aberration, Images Not Sharp At Focal Lengths Larger Than 200mm

I've been using this lens for about 6 weeks now. I have found that it takes good pictures at focal lengths shorter than 200mm as long as there are not any sharp lines with high contrast (i.e. black to white). If there are any areas with sharp black to white contrast, there is severe chromatic aberation. Also, above 200 mm the pictures aren't quite as sharp - you can definitely tell that they were taken with a telephoto lens. Given the price of this lens, these defects in the picutre may be expected. They are not very noticeable in 4x6 prints, but if you blow-up a picture or print larger than 4x6, they become very noticeable.

Good zoom lens

Pros: Great for objects far away, good lens for portraits.

Cons: Slow on autofocus and not so great aperture

I baught this lens just before I went to africa, it really helped me get the photos i needed of the aimals wich were sometimes far away and I caught great photos in the end. But I always had to use manual focus because I found the autofocus was noisy and very slow. Which if an animal was running I would find it easier to use manual focus rather then have to wait for the autofocus. But still a great lens in overall just remember that if you are going to buy it it has a slow autofocus.

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great quality!

Pros: good for portraiture and long distances of course!

Cons: its a bit noisy when on auto focus ,but thats about it.

I use this lens on my sony a77 and had used my kit lensbut the first time using this I was impressed with the quality of the photos. good autofocus and greatwhen shooting sport pictures when far on the side lines. overall a good lens for the price.

Great Bargain

Pros: Price, value

Cons: Collects dust easily on rubber surfaces

The 75-300MM lens is a great value lens and it will easily satisfy the budget minded hobbyist or professional as well. This lens takes great photographs and it's zoom capabilities makes it one of my favorites. The only issue is the dust that easily collects on its rubber surfaces otherwise you cant beat this entry level piece of glass.

Amazing Camera

Pros: Price, 12fps & Translucent Mirror

Cons: Owners manual should have more detailed entries about the camerea operation.

Me & my wife got blown away with the crisp & life like photos from our A57 with the use of this lense. I got my SAL 75300 at a Sony Store for a knock out price that can't be beaten. I should have bought this long time ago to capture the places & imagery from our outdoors escapades. Anyways it's not to late because I have my new toy with me this coming summer...

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Very good lens

Pros: good lens

Cons: none

Brought this lens to go with our A390 only had it 2 days and really like it. Auto focus is fast enough for us, The lens is super

Good economic lens

Pros: Light-weight, pretty good color and DOF

Cons: Focus ring & speed

This lens I've had for a year or so now and adding the replacement 70-300 Sony G lens this year. For those on a budget or wanting good quality glass for a good price then this is a good investment. You can't beat the range of this lens either. I've used it for many events and portraiture sessions and it provides great detail and sharpness when you're at about f7.1 to f.13. If I wasn't working with more high end clients, I wouldn't mind keeping this lens longer, but if you're really serious and doing major projects, I would recommend the 70-300 Sony G lens. The quality is very great from that lens. Once again Sony, nice optic here that won't break your pockets. The focus of this lens is rather poor and then it's quite irritating when using a CP filter because the front of the lens rotates as well so this can bring some challenges when you're taking a photo. Applying the lens hood to this lens and also taking it off is quite difficult, and puts a lot of tension on the focus ring. I've not had any issues with that in the year that I've had it so no worries about damaging your lens.

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nice lens

this lense lets you get closer when you are about to take a picture, specially whith kids, you do not have to be very close to them and you get them in the moment!!

Sony, truly like no other.

Pros: Easy to use, high quality, superior, Like no other.

Cons: none, this lens is flawless.

This lens has exceeded all of my expectations. It has an easy-to-use design and performs very well. The image quality is also superior to any other telephoto lens I have used. Sony has again proved its motto "Like no other."

INCREDIBLE cheapie!

Pros: Performance, price, look, feel

Cons: Not compact

Take a long look at my images - both captured under tungsten light, HAND HELD using Auto setting on a new a55, tele extended fully in fish pic and about 2/3 in desk clutter shot, VERY minimal photoshopping (CS5 64-bit). I am amazed, more than pleased. In a word, stunned. I give this lens 5 Stars in every category save for reliability, as I have only owned the lens for a few days. If you do not have this lens you'd better get it now before Sony wakes up and doubles the price.

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Not for low light shooting...!!!

Pros: Cheap, Build Quality, Sharpness, Colors, Bokeh...

Cons: SLOW autofocus...!!!

I purchased this lens to be able to shoot really close portraits of people on my A200, the lens is perfect when the subject is not moving fast as the auto focus is really slow, this lens should have had a SAM or something, also what i liked about it is the distortion control on this lens, you almost won't feel it while shooting, colors are really rich comparing to the 18-70 kit lens came with my camera and sharpness as well and bokeh is really nice... Shooting in low light could be a real problem if you tried leaving the lens to do the auto focus job as it hunts like forever (use manual focus to avoid this)... and of course due to the long zoom range handheld photos with longer exposure time that is less than 1/100 sec. are not sharp... Overall, it's a great value for money, as you get a really well built lens, with a construction similar to lenses double the price of this one.. Colors, sharpness, bokeh and build quality are really great... Its perfect for Macro, close-up, portrait photography as long as light conditions are good... Recommended for amateurs, and photographers in a short of budget..

Spectacular!

Pros: Lightweight, pricing, quality.

Cons: Loud autofocus

This lens is really worth investing in if you're looking for a quality telephoto zoom, but don't have the cash to drop on a high-end lens.

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Value zoom lens

Pros: Zoom in from far away and get the shot you're looking for, and cheap

Cons: Manual focus is a tad harder to move smoothly, and if you zoom down there is zoom creep.

Over all this lens is a good value zoom lens. I'm very happy I have it, and I would recommend it to anyone who just needed a zoom lens for a few shots here and there, but not as their main lens. One thing that you should keep in mind if you are looking to buy this lens is how much will you use this lens at its maximum and minimum focal lengths, and what you will use it for. Also you're going to want a bit of light with this lens if you want to stop your subjects without blur.

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