new old lens

[gphoto909]

hello, I just got my Canon EOS60D camera W/18mm/135mm lens. . I wanted to get another lens so I got a used canon eos 55mm/250mm used lens. it looks well taken care of but it hunts in low light and auto focuses a bit slow. do i have a bad lens?

 

[Tomasko]

Erm, try to post the real name of the lens, something like "Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS"
55/250 says only about focal lengths, but nothing about aperture, focusing motor etc. Are we supposed to guess these parameters?

If your lens is the one I've stated, it isn't really any surprise that it's slow in low light. It's a quite cheap lens with DC focusing motor and not-the-best aperture (f/4 for low-light won't perform very good)

 

[gphoto909]

Hi, sorry , I'll post the correct lens name correctly in the future. It is the Canon EOS EF-S IS 55 mm - 250 mm F/4.0-5.6 lens
I would like to get a better lens lens. Can someone recomend a better len?
I only have about $200 dollars.

 

[MattK0138]

That lens new is about 300.00.

 

[gphoto909]

Hi I can dream up about $3050.00 fur a new lens.
I would perfer Canon maybe Sigma.I belive, everyone would choise a new lens. A single focal lenth, maybe?

 

[MattK0138]

3000.00 look at canon L series. Any would be good lenses.

 

[EmilRye]

If I were you, I would sell that 55-200 and buy a Canon EF 70-200 F/2.8 .. I got mine used from eBay for around 1000 dollars .. It' a great lens, and if you really want to spend more money you can get the Canon EF 24-70 F/2.8 too and maybe get rid of that 18-55 as well ..
You will notice a big difference in image quality!

 

[gphoto909]

I really ment to say I have $300.00 to buy a new lens.
should I buy a new lens of the one I i bought used or should I get a different lens for my $200.00 to $300.00 dollars recomendations please

 

[MattK0138]

Auto focus is not great in low light I go to manual. By low light do you mean in the dark or an overcast day. If I walk outside at night and try to take a picture of the moon auto focus won't work. Using my 55-250 outside wt night I have no problems using auto focus on a flower 3 foot away. Most of the zoom lenses at that price aren't going to be to fast.

 

[gphoto909]

Thank you. It's all new to me. a bit overwemlling. Trying to move up from manual focus & 2 quarter camera. their is a lot of reading todo.