Canon RF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 Lens

The Canon RF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 lens is a versatile telephoto zoom designed for Canon's full-frame mirrorless RF-mount system. This lens balances both reach and form factor, making it an appealing option for wildlife, sports, and portrait photographers who prefer a lightweight setup without sacrificing image quality. Designed for Canon's RF mount, this lens fully utilizes the high-resolution capabilities of full-frame mirrorless cameras, offering impeccable image quality across the entire frame. The 75-300mm focal range is highly versatile. At 75mm, you can capture beautiful portraits with pleasing background blur, while the 300mm end gets you close to distant subjects, making it ideal for sports and wildlife photography. The maximum aperture of f/4-5.6 is relatively modest, which helps keep the lens compact and lightweight. While it might not be the best in low light conditions at the telephoto end, it's sufficient for use in well-lit environments. The narrow aperture range (up to f/32-45) provides extensive depth-of-field options, beneficial for achieving sharp focus across the entire scene. Its lightweight design makes it easy to carry, appealing for photographers who travel or hike to locations. Long shooting sessions become less strenuous, ensuring you can focus on your subjects without the burden of a heavy lens.

The DC motor ensures autofocus is smooth and relatively quiet, suitable for both stills and video work. While it may not be as fast as some higher-end USM or STM motors, it strikes a good balance between performance and cost-efficiency. Canon's Super Spectra Coating helps reduce flare and ghosting, enhancing contrast and color accuracy even in challenging lighting conditions. This coating is essential for maintaining clarity and color fidelity throughout the zoom range. Minimum focus distance of 1.5 meters allows you to get relatively close to your subjects, offering a more versatile range of shooting scenarios, especially in tight spaces or when trying to capture fine details. A seven-blade circular diaphragm contributes to pleasing out-of-focus quality (bokeh), making your subjects stand out against a smoothly blurred background, which can be especially appealing in portraiture and wildlife photography.

The Canon RF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 lens offers an attractive balance of focal length range, portability, and optical quality, particularly suited to photographers stepping into the realm of telephoto photography without the burden of carrying heavier, more expensive lenses. Its range from medium telephoto to super-telephoto caters to a variety of photographic needs. While professionals might seek lenses with faster apertures for low light and ultra-sharp image quality, this lens provides an excellent entry point for enthusiasts and emerging professionals looking to expand their creative reach with their Canon full-frame mirrorless cameras.

Product Features in Detail

Bring life even closer
Push your creativity and pull distant subjects into sharp focus with a powerful 75-300mm telephoto zoom kit lens. With its compact, go-anywhere design, the RF 75-300mm F4-5.6 is the perfect partner for sports days and wild escapes.

A closer look at the RF 75-300mm f4-5.6
Discover the key features that make this one of the best kit lenses for adventures in nature, sports and beyond.

75-300mm zoom
Quickly adjust the framing of your shots and get in closer using the versatile 4x telephoto zoom

Lightweight design
One of the smallest and lightest lenses of its type at just 507g

Large zoom ring
Rotate the ring approximately a quarter of a turn to go from minimum to maximum zoom, or vice versa

Greater reach with flexibility and freedom
Zoom right in to magnify distant subjects and create impressive photos and videos, thanks to a versatile range of telephoto focal lengths wrapped up in a lightweight and well-balanced kit lens.

Wildlife
Use this telephoto kit zoom lens to keep your distance and avoid disturbing wild animals and birds as you get your shot.

Family sports events
Punch into the action and keep your subject sharp thanks to an autofocus motor that works brilliantly with Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF.

Candid portraits
Capture natural family moments from a flattering perspective and make your subject stand out from a softly blurred background.

Distant subjects
Bring faraway details into thrilling close-up focus, allowing you to easily spot and photograph aircraft, boats and trains from afar.

Zoom in
Move the slider to see how the RF 75-300mm F4-5.6’s flexible telephoto zoom range lets you frame your subject in creative ways.

Pull faraway subjects into view
Reach out and capture close-up images of subjects that you can’t physically get close to, with the 75-300mm range. Shoot action from the sidelines, wonderful wildlife images and get closer than you thought possible.

Enjoy creative freedom with a telephoto zoom
Zoom in to isolate the subject for maximum impact, zoom out to pull more of the surroundings into your picture. At 300mm you can get as close as 1.5m to fill the frame with detail.

Create impressive, artistic images
Use the telephoto reach and widest available aperture to achieve superb separation between your subject and the background for a professional look.

Extend your reach
Get even more effective reach when you use the RF 75-300mm F4-5.6 on an APS-C camera. An APS-C sensor records a smaller area of the image captured by the lens – so your subject looks even closer than it does on a full-frame camera.

Sharp subjects, pillow-soft backgrounds
Enjoy beautiful background blur thanks to the seven aperture blades, while the autofocus motor reliably and accurately keeps your subject in sharp focus.

An easy way to extend your reach
A great value telephoto kit zoom lens that won’t weigh you down, with a compact, lightweight design that’s ready to go anywhere from a local football match to a remote nature reserve.

Take your passion further
Use this lightweight lens on any EOS R System camera equipped with the RF mount to extend your creativity. Pair it with the EOS R100 for even more reach, equivalent to 120-480mm.