The best 150-600mm lenses in 2024: super-telephoto zooms to get close to the action

With the best 150-600mm lenses, photographers have such a versatile zoom range that they can allow you to get up close to their subjects without even having to move their feet. As such, these lenses are especially beloved by sports and motorsports photographers, as well as wildlife shooters who want a broad range of telephoto perspectives. For subjects you just can't get close to, from wildlife to aircraft, a 150-600mm lens is ideal.

Matthew Richards
Matthew Richards

Matthew Richards is a photographer and journalist who has spent years using and reviewing all manner of photo gear. He is Digital Camera World's principal lens reviewer, and as such he has tested more primes and zooms – including plenty of 150-600mm optics – than most people have had hot dinners! 

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Matthew Richards

Matthew Richards is a photographer and journalist who has spent years using and reviewing all manner of photo gear. He is Digital Camera World's principal lens reviewer – and has tested more primes and zooms than most people have had hot dinners! 


His expertise with equipment doesn’t end there, though. He is also an encyclopedia  when it comes to all manner of cameras, camera holsters and bags, flashguns, tripods and heads, printers, papers and inks, and just about anything imaging-related. 


In an earlier life he was a broadcast engineer at the BBC, as well as a former editor of PC Guide.

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