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Okay, if I had no more than three hunred dollars and wanted a 300mm telephoto lens, THIS is the specific lens I would buy KEH Camera: Nikon Manual Focus - Fixed Focal Lengths - 300 F4.5 ED INTERNAL FOCUS AIS (72) MISSING TRIPOD MOUNT 35MM SLR MANUAL FOCUS TELEPHOTO LENS
Why? This was once a very expensive, state of the art small field telephoto lens. It has an on-lens aperture ring and a 72mm filter size, and it is the lens John Shaw used extensively to do world class closeup photography used in illustrating several of his field guides to nature and close-up photography. I first used one of these back in 1986, when this lens was ground-breaking. It has a feather-touch internal focusing system, with a rather long, precise focusing adjustment at longer distances,and a *very* unusual type of internal focusing that is hard to describe. THis is not like modern AF lenses with hair-trigger manual focusing: this lens is built rock-solid, but is actually small-diameter and fairly light. On APS-C, this lens will allow you to focus manually even on action sports,since only a few internal elements move, and the focusing system is very,very,very different from regular lenses.
This lens functions superbly with extension tubes and works well with closeup "lenses" like the Canon 500D. It is f/4.5, so it is 2/3 stop faster than a cheap, non-ED glass 70-300 f/4.5~5.6 lens. This lens will adapt to a Canon body with a $17 eBay adapter,and is quite usable wide-open,and again, the focusing system is feather-light, and rapid,and yet optimized for manual focusing unlike chap AF lenses. This lens cost $700 in the mid-1980's--this is a former professional-grade 300mm ED-glass lens, for $279 in Excellent shape, $244 in bargain shape with tripod collar. Your Canon will shoot this lens in Av mode or M mode quite well,especially at f/4.5 to f/5.6.
Why? This was once a very expensive, state of the art small field telephoto lens. It has an on-lens aperture ring and a 72mm filter size, and it is the lens John Shaw used extensively to do world class closeup photography used in illustrating several of his field guides to nature and close-up photography. I first used one of these back in 1986, when this lens was ground-breaking. It has a feather-touch internal focusing system, with a rather long, precise focusing adjustment at longer distances,and a *very* unusual type of internal focusing that is hard to describe. THis is not like modern AF lenses with hair-trigger manual focusing: this lens is built rock-solid, but is actually small-diameter and fairly light. On APS-C, this lens will allow you to focus manually even on action sports,since only a few internal elements move, and the focusing system is very,very,very different from regular lenses.
This lens functions superbly with extension tubes and works well with closeup "lenses" like the Canon 500D. It is f/4.5, so it is 2/3 stop faster than a cheap, non-ED glass 70-300 f/4.5~5.6 lens. This lens will adapt to a Canon body with a $17 eBay adapter,and is quite usable wide-open,and again, the focusing system is feather-light, and rapid,and yet optimized for manual focusing unlike chap AF lenses. This lens cost $700 in the mid-1980's--this is a former professional-grade 300mm ED-glass lens, for $279 in Excellent shape, $244 in bargain shape with tripod collar. Your Canon will shoot this lens in Av mode or M mode quite well,especially at f/4.5 to f/5.6.