Our Overall Score:
9.5/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Lenses category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £1199
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Canon or alternative products in the Lenses category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens
Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens scores 9.6/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Lenses. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Lenses, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Lenses? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens scores 9.2/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Lenses category was £2799.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £99.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Lenses category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Lenses category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Lenses category. This was £691.46 from the 153 products we found in that category. So Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens actually comes in above average at £1199.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2799.00 and the least expensive, which was £99.00. In total we found that of the 153, 25 were more expensive and 127 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens.
Prices of products from Canon
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Canon. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Canon, which was £431.49 of the 305 products we found. So Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Canon was £3.99 with the most expensive coming in at £2819.00.
Prices of products from Canon and in the Lenses category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Canon that sit specifically within the Lenses category.
For this we found that the average price was £844.06, making Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens at £1199 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £2799.00 with the lowest priced item being £99.00. In total there were 18 items that were more expensive and 44 that was less expensive.
Reviews of Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens
Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens scores 9.8/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens is.
Overall score
Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens scores 9.5/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Canon so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens
- Brand: Canon
- Model Number: f/45.6L
- Ideal for sports & wildlifeCompatible with Canon EF mountAperture range: f/4.0 – f/45Image stabilisationSilent focus
- EAN: 4960999665023
- Description: Cover a huge focal range with outstanding optical performance when you use the Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens. High performance optics Compatible with your Canon EF mount DSLRs, compact and versatile Telephoto zoom lens is the perfect addition to your kit bag. With a full range of applications open to you thanks to its 70 – 300 mm range, this powerful lens is a terrific all round shooter. Delivering excellent image quality, the EF 70 – 300 mm Telephoto Zoom will let you shoot confidently and capture every detail whether you’re shooting wildlife, sports or using it for everyday reportage and portraiture. Stable shooting A four stop image stabilisation mechanism, which has been specifically designed to work with this focal length, reduces image blur at slower shutter speeds making the 70-300 mm a highly usable all round lens. Automatic panning detection makes it even easier to track fast moving subjects with quick auto-focussing working to get you the shots you want in a split second. Powered by a ring-type ultrasonic motor, you can be sure that your shots will be perfectly focussed with incredible accuracy without overshooting thanks to the excellent holding torque of the motor. This impressive lens also features an optional manual override to shoot with manual focus settings for complete control in the field to let put your own artistic stamp on the photos you take. L-Series lens Heading Canon’s flagship professional lens range, this L-Series lens represents the pinnacle of Canon’s stable of optics with superior construction and handling. Boasting Ultra Low Dispersion elements to eliminate chromatic aberration in your shots, this high performance telephoto zoom lens gives you versatility and amazing image sharpness in one. Shoot creatively with the 70 – 300 mm and get closer to your subjects to capture detail like never before. An effective aperture range of f/4 – 45 and a circular 8 blade diaphragm let you express yourself creatively with depth of field and dramatic background blurring to boost your photographic arsenal. Highly resistant to dust and moisture, the Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L USM IS Telephoto Zoom Lens gives you supreme photographic versatility in a convenient, high-quality package.
- Product ID: 3095252061
