I started with a canon T2i and I currently own a Canon D80. I've used this lens on both camera's and the quality is phenomenal. I have a few lenses, and this one is my go to about 70 percent of the time (the other percent I need a higher zoom). For amateur to intermediate (even a few pros I am acquainted with) use this lens. It's great for street photography, macro, getting an amazing bokeh affect, as well as landscape photography. I'm sure you will not be disappointed with this purchase. As a photographer, with a huge passion, hoping one day to add "professional" to my title, this lens does the trick. A must for anyone with a passion who would like great pictures, and needs a very impressive prime lens.

I try to look for stuff that can do double duty. That allows my money to stretch further. This is one lens that can do two or even three things.First, it’s a macro lens. It creates nice close-up, sharp photos. I don’t do much macro other than as a novelty. Being up close in macro mode, the auto focus seems to hunt around a little bit. But I suspect as a macro photographer, you should be in manual focus mode? That seems to be the pattern in all types of photography where the highest detail is sought.Second, it’s a landscape lens. At 105mm it is a stretch but in a pinch, it can be made to work. I like that it’s super sharp and relatively fast so it brings up details nicely. You just have to move back a little bit.Third, it can work as a portrait lens…in a pinch. Again, it’s sharpness helps although, you may have to soften things a bit to balance out facial imperfections. And again, you’ll need to move back a bit.After messing around with this lens, I think it’s a very cost effective purchase and can compliment your other lenses if you are a minimalist (or poor like me).Lastly, I was concerned about the autofocus speed. While researching this lens I read a lot of articles where they mentioned slow autofocus speed. I believe that was written about earlier models because AF is fast and accurate. I think this focuses even faster (in non macro mode) than the z 20mm 1.8.Oh yeah, it looks heavy but it’s very light.All in, this is a great lens and something to consider if you’re on a really tight budget.This lens rounds out my lens collection of 20mm, 50mm and now this, my newly acquired 105mm.

I bought this gimbal for use with my Sony A7III and the FE200-600 lens. When I set it up as described, it would not balance when the tilt locking knob is completely disengaged. The foot is too short for the camera and lens to be moved far enough back in the mount to achieve balance. I purchased the longer Leofoto replacement foot and tried it. The Leofoto is long enough, but unfortunately, it has a heel that sticks out and does not allow the lens to move above 60 degrees of elevation without hitting the base of the gimbal. I then tried the Wemberley AP-620 replacement foot. It is long enough to achieve balance and does not have a heel. It works nicely and I was able to balance the camera and lens in the gimbal.My only remaining complaint with the gimbal is the mounting platform vertical adjustment. It does not have any dampening. As soon as I loosen the platform locking knob, gravity drops the platform into the lowest position. This does not lend itself to minor adjustments and can be very cumbersome when trying to adjust a heavy lens.In regards to customer support, I reached out to Siriu to see if they could offer any suggestions. I could not find a support link on the Sirui website and ended up sending an email to their sales department. I received a response the next day from someone in Germany. It was of little help. Their follow-up questions, such as "what is the weight of the lens", were a waste of time. They could have been resolved with a simple online search. It took nine days to exchange three email messages with them. I responded almost immediately. They waited days to reply. Although they advertise this product as a "perfectly fit with a mirrorless camera and compatible 200mm-600mm telephoto lens." They have obviously never tested this claim with the Sony 200-600mm lens and stock foot. Actually, I'm not sure if they tested it at all. I can't find another "200-600mm" mirrorless camera lens on the market. So I'm unsure of the basis of their claim.In summary, it's a decent gimbal for the price. But the marketing materials are either based on faulty testing or failed to disclose that the results were dependent on the use of a third-party lens foot. In addition, one of the main adjustments (locking platform elevation) is difficult to use with heavy lenses. A more accurate rating is probably closer to 3.5 stars. Given that the gold standard gimbal, the Wimberley WH-200 is near twice the price at $595, I am generally satisfied with the Siriu gimbal at $299. I did have to spend an additional $79 on the Wimberley foot to make it work. However, I would have probably bought it anyway, as the stock foot is not Arca-Swiss compatible.

I've had my eye on this lens for years now, and finally purchased it for my Canon 700D (Rebel T5i) last week.Excellent quality photos in low lighting (as it should), very fun to just play around with the manual focus when out with family and friends. I really recommend this lens to anyone who is understanding of the way a camera works (aperture, f-stop, ISO, white balance etc) because it does require a little know-how to get your desired shot. I haven't played around with the automatic settings as much yet, but I'm sure those are just as good.I am currently using this lens to film interviews with people, and it creates captivating, high quality footage. Great lens.

Did not come in the typical Canon packaging. It came in a plain white box and bubble wrap. No instructions nor warranty within the box. It looked pristine and I have not used it yet. I am wondering if this was a return? "Gray market" as they say.Update: I used the lens before and it seems to work well. I viewed the photos on my laptop, which does not have the best screen resolution. I forwarded the photos to my Workstation that has a very nice Samsung 22 inch monitor. I will have a look-see now.Last Update: As many of the reviews suggest, this is a nice small lens. I will keep it. I have several Canon cameras and lens. I also bought the EOS M mount/adapter, but will attach some of my super fast lens once I get around to it. Otherwise, despite the packaging this lens will join the camera bag.

I bought this lens to try and get a wider angle for streaming basketball games. I have a iPhone 7+. It takes some fiddling to get it to fit well, and I did have some distortion at the veryedges. It works better than I expected and is well priced. My only concern is the clamp is sitting on the phone screen and I don’t know if it’s too much pressure. I haven’t used the micro lens at all but the wide-angle works well. Probably not as good quality as my phone camera lens alone but good enough for our needs. I included a picture with and without the lens without moving the phone (tripod). Pictures are screen grabs from the streaming video. Normal pictures will be better quality.

If you have ever lost the lens cap for your lens, then you'll want to get these lens cap keepers. I now have one for every lenses I own!

To take a close up of a picture on the table, this camera holder can be adjust at nearly its max bending position to have the camera lens face straight down. However, the camera holder is such that it freely rotates right and left, and it is very difficult to manually hold the camera so its body is parallel to the table top with one hand wile the other presses the button on the camera viewer to take the picture. This issue was resolved through the prompt intercession via e-mail by the seller/company by tightening a bolt on the adjustable arm.