Any experience with the Sony 70-300mm G SSM?

[Streets]

I just purchased one of these on Ebay. I would like some opinions to read over while waiting for it to arrive.

[TCav]

https://www.flickr.com/groups/sonyca...7626434624311/

[lomitamike]

It's a nice lens. I used it and thought it was very capable for anything I used it for.
The only reason I didn't keep it around was I ended up with the 70-200G and 70-400G (my most used lens).
It's a very nicely sized lens though, not too big or heavy.

[Streets]

I'm going to keep it.

[lomitamike]

Originally Posted by Streets

I'm going to keep it.

Congratulations. G lenses are nice.

[rereygrifany]

Originally Posted by Streets

I'm going to keep it.

good looking viewer photo

[JimC]

Originally Posted by rereygrifany

good looking viewer photo

rereygrifany:
We do not appreciate spammers here. So, you are now banned. Any links to the site you are promoting are now being filtered in all past and future posts, so that the site name will be replaced by *******

to other members:
This new member had a hidden image file in the form of a transparent 1x1 pixel image embedded in the post. It was hidden by placing the link to the image inside bbcode img tags to display the {tiny, transparent) image. The technique used made the post look normal, with no sign of any embedded image file.

This is a technique being used by spammers to get more page hits to a site, because the image is normally invisible when members are looking at the forum posts when viewing it from the forums software, yet search engines look at the embedded links. The idea is that the more sites that have links to the site being promoted, search engines will assume it is a more popular site and put it higher in search engine rankings when users search for products that the promoted site may offer.

You can also see those types of hidden files if you quote a post that you suspect, then click on the button at the top right of the edit screen so that you can see the text including the embedded bbcode.

Since I am now filtering out the site name this 1 pixel transparent image file was located on, the bbcode that was used is visible in the spammers post now. This code (and you could not see those img tags or the link to it without that site name being filtered, unless changing the edit mode so that you could see the embedded bbcode):



Instead, you only saw the post text being quoted, without being able to see anything else like the img tags or link to the image. that are now visible because of the filter I setup).

if you see people doing this in the future, please click on the complaint button for the post and we'll take a look at it.

I don't read every post. I just happened to take a closer look at this one, since was made by a new member, and was replying to a thread from 2015.

With brand new members, we often find techniques like that being used (hidden image files being embedded by surrounding a 1x1 pixel transparent image with img tags), designed to get more page hits for the site the image is located on, so that the site will show up higher in search engine rankings)

I can't stand SEO (Search Engine Optimization) firms, as they often hire spammers using those types of techniques. Grrrrrr

[TCav]

Kudos, Jim

[Ozzie_Traveller]

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Thank you Jim - another 10/10 for your care & result

Phil

[blkms]

Thanks for the action and the info Jim.

Mike