Sony alpha 75-300mm f4.5-5.6 HD Examples / Review

The Sony 75-300 mm f4.5-5.6 (Model SAL-75300) is a cheap mostly plastic-bodied full-frame camera lens with optics that are exceeded by many other lenses. Why would anyone own such a thing? Well, I bought the Sony because it was affordable, and good enough for what I needed. I needed a relatively compact lens that wouldn’t devastate me if it broke. I often work from a boat conducting plant surveys and monitoring water quality. While the lens is mostly useless for those purposes I wanted to be able to get the occasional wildlife shots. My Sony a65 and previously a580 often are hidden well protected in a Pelican case, but once they’re out they are subject to a number of hazards, and the long 75-300 only makes it more likely to get bumped. While the optics are just ok, if it were not for that lens I would never have gotten a number of shots. These photographs will never be blown up to 5 feet wide, but they will show up in PowerPoint presentations, websites, and YouTube videos. For most people zooming out to 300mm is an uncommon focal length, so the expense of better, bigger, and far costlier zooms just doesn’t make sense. It’s nice that most manufacturers, including Sony, make an inexpensive lens for those that don’t need it often or need a lens they can live with breaking. More information: Thanks for watching