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So between the 70-300 ED and the 55-300 VR, which would be the best for me on a limited budget of about 250$
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So between the 70-300 ED and the 55-300 VR, which would be the best for me on a limited budget of about 250$
I have the 70-300 VR. I've been happy with the results I get and I think for the money you get a lot of lens. But what I use it for the most by far is tooling around my hunting lease and snapping shots of deer, turkey, quail and the odd coyote. These are shots of opportunity where you have only seconds and a tripod is not an option. For serious wildlife photography, unfortunately, big, fast and expensive glass is needed. If you need the range of the 300 then you're probably not able to get close and thus will probably benefit from the VR.
As I'm pretty sure the Tamron 18-270 will be as well. Save a little more and keep an eye on Craig's List for an 80-200 f2.8D; these go for between $650 and 800 depending on conditition and version, and are excellent optically. They are slower focusing (not I'm as slow as the Tamron would be), but given how much faster it is optically, the ability to shoot at reasonable shutter-speeds and use large apertures such as f2.8, f4 will more than make up for it.It's not going to work for action shots. Simply too slow on AF.