Severi Salminen wrote:
> How good quality I can expect from these lenses for my purpose: 28-90 "kit" USM
> and 75-300 USM?
In my opinion, the 28-105/3.5~4.5 is a better value than the kit lenses. It offers
very good optical performance for the price (better than the kit lenses), and unlike
the kit USM lenses, you can focus manually without disengaging AF. In the U.S. you
can find the older "Mk. I" version at closeout prices ($224 at B&H), and I think
this lens is a steal at that price. Be sure to get the lens hood for it.
> I don't need the latest innovations and the best quality. I need
> decent quality for decent price.
You get what you pay for. If your interest is family snapshots, then pretty much any
lens will do. If you are at all serious about your photography, you owe it to
yourself to get the best lenses you can afford. Everyone seems to want to say, "I
don't need the best lenses" as a way of saying "I want good image quality without
having to pay for it." Certainly many of us can't pay for it and we make due with
what we can afford. But when we buy lenses on the cheap even when we could get
something a little better, it just costs us more in the long run when we finally
replace that cheap lens with the one we should have bought in the first place, or
when our photos just aren't as good as we expected regardless of the soundness of
our technique.
300mm without an extender isn't going to be long enough for most birds anyway,
unless you're going to set up a habitat in your yard and shoot from close range;
also, you're going to need a tripod at 300mm most of the time. IMO the 75-300 zooms
are an unecessary compromise (for wildlife, anyway) and not really up to the task
you have in mind. Better to put off the purchase awhile until you can afford a 300/4
and one or both of Canon's extenders (second-hand, perhaps). As a general-purpose
telephoto lens for less money, you can't beat the 200/2.8L, but it isn't really
suitable for bird photography except in circumstances where you can get unusually
close. It is a great landscape lens though!
I suspect this isn't much help if you're seriously considering the two lenses you
mentioned. :-(
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