Fantastic Lens for the money!

Author's Rating:

Pros: Nice 'feel' -Zoom ring offers fast zoom with little effort -Very sharp images throughout range

Cons: Color (looks horribly out of place on the 300D)

Author's Review
I am an aviation photography enthusiast and had been using the Canon Zoom Telephoto EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III Autofocus lens for a little over a year. Though this lens was an inexpensive foray into a fairly powerful zoom, its autofocus was lacking in speed and overall ability.

I decided on the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM because I wanted the speed and image quality of the Canon 'L' glass without breaking the bank. I must say that I am quite impressed with this lens. Autofocus is very fast (and not hindered much, if at all by the addition of the Canon 1.4x II EF-AF Extender, but that is another review!) and accurate. The f4 seems to be more than enough for most circumstances and does EXTREMELY well with aviation photography. I have also found that the 100mm I gave up by going from 75-300mm to 70-200mm can almost be made up for with cropping alone because this lens provides much better detail at 200mm than the 75-300mm did at 300mm.