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SMC Pentax-F 100-300mm F4.5-5.6 | | | | Sharpness | | | Aberrations | | | Bokeh | | | Autofocus | | | Handling | | | Value | |
| | Reviews | Views | Date of last review | | 20 | 123,929 | Mon February 5, 2024 | |  | | Recommended By | Average Price | Average User Rating | | 80% of reviewers | $83.11 | 7.15 | | | | 
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| Author: | | Senior Member Registered: March, 2009 Location: Gouda, Netherlands Posts: 165 | | Review Date: March 12, 2009 | Recommended | Price: $80.00
| Rating: 7 |
| Pros: | Internal zoom, good build,easy zoom | | Cons: | rotating frontlens, much CA, hunting autofocus when low light. | |
I like this lens because I got much for less money. It's sharp from 100 to 300, but with a little bit higher aperture like 6.7-8.0. I think this lens is the best budget lens to get when a 300 1:4 is to expensive. Other aspects are mentioned above.
| | | | | | | Senior Member Registered: June, 2008 Location: Tustin, CA Posts: 206
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: February 23, 2009 | Recommended
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | long, cheap, inernal zooming, not too soft | | Cons: | AF hunts a lot in low light, rotating front element, not enough damping on either focus or zoom ring, no included hood | |
This lens is probably the most economical Pentax 300mm AF lens. It's not too heavy, but build quality isn't bad (except for undamped zoom and focus rings).
Image quality is good for a low end lens. My main gripe has to be that it sucks at focusing in low light
| | | | | Junior Member Registered: September, 2008 Location: Québec Posts: 40
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: October 6, 2008 | Recommended | Price: $200.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Good sharp lens, useful focal lengths | | Cons: | A little slow | |
I have taken some shots of birds and was impressed. It’s compact build and 300mm are great. Works with the Tamron 1.4x TC. The images are sharp even at 300mm. Performance in low light is not spectacular but better than I expected.
So I am very pleased with this lens and would highly recommend it.
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| | Review Date: April 6, 2008 | Recommended | Price: $200.00
| Rating: 6 |
| Pros: | light weight, low cost | | Cons: | not very good quality wide open at 300mm, only f/5.6 at 300mm | |
I enjoyed using this lens around town, but on over cast days in London it was not fast enough when shooting above 200mm (this was before SR). The same problem went for Africa in the shade at 300mm.
If you are looking at a zoom with this range, this is probably a good one in this price range, but if you are going for image quality, you'll find a better option out there.
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| | Review Date: September 12, 2007 | Recommended | Price: $80.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Does not extend when zooming, reasonably sharp | | Cons: | Somewhat large, slow apertures. | |
I just changed my FA 100-300mm f4.7-5.8 rating to 7 because this is a better lens but still not a 9. Sturdier than the FA f4.7-5.8, with a better mechanical build quality, no zoom creep and a metal lens mount. This is a very decent lens in this focal length range. It does not have the complexity of the FA power zoom version and, although a little soft at the long end, it is a very competant lens. If my first set of images, using this lens on my *istDS, are any indication I will be using it for a long time to come.
I am enjoying the much smoother zoom action (more like my old MF lenses), there is no zoom creep (partly because this lens does not extend while zooming like the cheaper FA f4.7-5.8 lens). A small point is that this lens, although an F series, is styled just like my FA primes which gives a continuity to my currently active lens collection.
My wife now has the FA 100-300mm f4.7-5.8 because this F 100-300mm f4.5-5.6 is much more to my liking, only very slightly faster but better handling and with much more control over CA in high contrast images.
Ira
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