EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS II Telephoto Zoom Lens</br>Focal Length & Maximum Aperture: 55-250mm F/4-5.6</br>Closest Focusing Distance: 3.6 Ft./1.1m</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Bring your photographic subjects closer with this Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Image Stabilizer Telephoto Zoom Lens. It is designed with Canon's Optical Image Stabilizer technology and is compact and light. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses). The image stabilizer effect is equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words?? if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second?? with Canon's 4-stop stabilization correction?? you could hand-hold at shutter