JINTU 420-1600mm Manual Focus Telephoto Zoom Lens for SLR Camera, D3100, D3200, D3300, D3400, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D5600, D7000, D7100, D7200, D300s, D600, D610, D700, D750, D800

Excellent service, great value

A great budget telephoto lens, if you are looking for a long reach telephoto lens but don’t want to pay mega bucks for the hi end lenses, then this lens is an ideal choice. I have it paired to my Nikon D3500 camera. Just select Manual Mode set the shutter speed fine tune the exposure and ISO and you are away. Use the lens without the teleconverter give you 420-800m with us a good general length and it produces nice results, adding the teleconverter gives 800-1600m but the quality does drop a bit, and you do need an extra 2 stops on the exposure. All in all a good quality, lightweight lens which is ideal for those look to start in wildlife photography. Recommend.

For the money this is an impressive bit of kit. Once focussing has been mastered it's fairly straight forward.I was a bit puzzled at first as to how you adjust the aperture but from what i've learned since is that the aperture changes automatically as you adjust the zoom.I would like to see the manual (sheet) a bit more comprehensiveIt is fairly heavy and a tripod is essential . To improve stability i mount the camera AND the lens on an extension bar (obtainable from Amazon) and then attaching to the tripod.Considering the cost it's good value

I bought this off the back of other reviews saying how it was a manual only lens which considering the price and focal length, I thought it would be a good tool to help to learn manual photography. It did work and I did manage to take photos with it fully manual, however after using it for only a few days, the lense would no longer fully extend to give 800mm, and as it turns out, the pins the separate as extend it had come out of their housing due to a design over site. As you pull the lens to extend it, the pins pop out of their tracks unless you move it slowly and squeeze it so the pins stay in place.I thought it was too good to be true, and it's a shame as the price is good, but the quality just isn't quite there yet!

As I am waiting for an adapter from another seller, I haven't been able to test this lens yet, bit it feels solid and the movement is positive. I am looking forward to trying it out soon.

It is what it is - a basic manual focus lens, and it for the money it does a great job.If you want an auto focus lens with stabilisation and that will communicate fully with your camera then put your hand in your pocket, spend £500-£1000 and away you go, but for roughly £100 this lens is lightweight, compact and the optics are perfectly good.

really need a tripod to get a good picture unless you have super steady hero hands but for the money it's really good.... I have had some great photos from this lens

They say you get what you pay for, and whilst that is true if you go into this with realistic expectations, you’re going to really enjoy this thing. This lens has already surprised me. I’ve included a shot from my initial night test and managed to get a few shots of the area known as the Orion Nebula (just below his belt) I never expected to be able to image these by myself, so for a cheap lens to enable me to pull it off took my breath away. If you know what you are doing with a lens already, it’s an ideal hobbyist bit of tinkering. Image quality is of course not going to be as good as the more expensive (I hasten to use the word “proper” ) lenses, but I’m able to get closer to subjects than with any other lenses that I can ever afford. I removed a star because there are of course limitations (completely manual focus and viewfinding etc) but it’s still going to be a lot of fun to use.