zippered pocket i have a polaroid sx-70 with some film, and a small tripod, which extends to about three feet tall, so nothing too great. then, in the front velcro pocket, i have about fifteen rolls of film and thats about all that can fit in there. Decatur Mobile Truck Repair

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Decent build quality
Compact

Image quality
Contrast
Sharpness
Diffisuclt to focus

This lens is unusably bad. I've owned dozens of lenses and this is the first one I couldn't get a decent 4X6 with. It has pathetic resolution and exremely poor contrast. I got much sharper photos by shooting with my MInolta 75-300mm lens (an average lens) and cropping down. This lens may be cheap, but even for the occasional user it is too poor in quality. By a camer maker's mirror lens, Sigma's 600mm, Tamron's, a zoom that goes out to 300mm, anything but this! By far the worst lens I've ever used.

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Long lens pulls in distant subjects. Inexpensive long lens. Sharp in bright light. Great value for the price. If you've got $7000, get the Nikon or Canon long glass.

Fairly slow lens - fixed f8. Not a very bright view due to being an f8. Focusing is touchy.

My buddy bought this lens from his brother-in-law and asked me to try it out for him. In bright light it is a great lens, especially when you consider the price. In low light, you'd better use a tripod. Great for pulling in birds (which is what I used it on), and I'm sure it will work for other wildlife shots as well. It is a slow lens (it's an f8, fixed apeture after all), and the manual focus is a pain when you're used to autofocus. My only real complaint is that the focusing is very touchy. A small fraction of an inch on the focusing ring makes a hugh difference on whether your subject is in focus or not.

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It is not true Vivitar 500/8 has got 4.1 points from Photodo. This lens has been NOT tested by Photodo, the grade 4.0 applies to 105/2.5 macro. The result 4.1 can get only especially excellent prime lenses, not a mirror telephoto lens from Vivitar - even the Zeiss Mirotar 500/8 would get (if tested) the grade around 2.8 - 3.0. For a mirror lens the grade 4 is IMPOSSIBLE on principle reasons. If you will have a very good mirror lens for a reasonable price, then you should buy either Tamron 500/8 or Sigma 600/8. Not a Vivitar!

Compact, light-weight. Nice solid construction for such a cheap lens, with smooth focusing ring. I actually like the very shallow DOF.

Horrendous image quality.

You get what you pay for! I was hoping that this lens would give me at least decent telephoto shots with my Canon 10D. I had read on the photodo.com lens test website that this lens was given a 4.1 out of 5 rating so my hopes were high. However, the image quality is so bad that it is unusable to me. The main problem with the image quality is the totally washed-out, very low contrast look, as well as soft overall focus. My Sony F717 at full optical telephoto with full digital telephoto and with the Olympus B300 teleconverter attached (effective focal length of 650mm) was way better. Although the Vivitar only costs $120 US (with adapter) it is nonetheless a waste of $120. Don't buy this lens.

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Light weight, small.

Wery soft, hard to focus. DONT BUY THIS LENS.

Nice small lens, until you have seen the pictures. The store let me change it to a Tamron 500/8 for a good price.

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Light weight, relatively cheap. compact

Lens resolutions is too low. Images are too soft. Difficult to have correct focus. Depth of Field is very thin

If you are considering purchase of this lens, please save your money. You may buy a resonable sharp lens with 300mm f/6.3 at cheaper price. Photos taken with this lens is too soft. Resolution of the lens is nearly the same as those "One time used" camera. It may be good to use this lens to observe the moon, however don't expect that you can have a resonable pictures from it.

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