70-300mm kit lens upgrade

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Hi all. I have searched back a few pages so hopefully I'm not stepping on anyone's toes with this one.

I bought a 100D just after christmas, cracking little camera but as my experience as grown this last few months I now realise what lenses I think would be better for my photography style - mostly outdoors and landscapes and sport (football and motorsport)

The camera came with standard 18-55mm and 70-300mm kit lenses. I have since supplemented these with the 24mm pancake and 10-18mm wide angle. I'm perfectly happy with the 18-55mm kit lens but the 70-300 is really a sub par lens I'm now discovering.

Having browsed for the last few evenings I seem to be coming back to same couple of options:

Canon 55-250 Ef-s STM
Canon 18-200 Ef-s (this would mean I could sell both my kit lenses)

Or even the Tamron 18-270mm Di II or III - if someone can explain the difference!?

In relative terms I'm clearly still a noob so any advice on these (or alternatives) is most welcome!
 
I was going to say, the newer 70-300mm lenses are excellent. I had the Nikon 70-300mm f/5.6 VR and it compares extrmely well to my 70-200mm f/2.8 VR over the same 200mm range. My best guess is the 3 other lenses you listed all have inferior image quality compared to the newer Canon 70-300mm lenses, especially the 18-200 and 18-270mm lenses, they just don't come close.



You might have a really old 70-300mm, in which case my advice is to upgrade it to the latest Canon version, or the Tamron 70-300mm VC.
 
Thanks for the replies. It's the EF 70-300mm I have - the mark III non IS and non STM/USM, it really is at the budget end of the scale. I imagine even the EFS 55-250 IS STM is bound to be a noticeable upgrade?
 
Thanks for the replies. It's the EF 70-300mm I have - the mark III non IS and non STM/USM, it really is at the budget end of the scale. I imagine even the EFS 55-250 IS STM is bound to be a noticeable upgrade?
Ok, buy either the newest Canon 70-300 with IS and USM, or the Tamron 70-300mm VC
 
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