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Mr. T. from Santa Clara CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Zoom Lens for Photography and Video Classes

My students need a 18-135 MM Zoom lens for a variety of photographic uses. We can use this lens for sports, portrait and video production classes.

  • $816 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are a great mix of culture and socio economic backgrounds. In one word, they are very diverse. They are overall great kids that really want to learn and value good teaching, classes and materials. We are in the heart of the Silicon Valley, and students are excited about some of the great opportunities our region offers. The overall atmosphere at our school is very cooperative and students really get a chance to interact with and meet kids from different backgrounds.

My Project

This is a great lens that deserves fantastic students. We would love to begin building our collection of lenses for a variety of classes.

Fun Zoom lens for great photo and video students.

This lens will be used often in my photo classes for a variety of photo lessons. We will use it for sports photography and nature photography to get closer to subjects. It is also great for portraits that we can zoom in close with a large f-stop. This allows the background to appear blurrier because we zoomed in.

We will also use this lens in Video production and use it with our PZ-E1 Zoom adapter. This will allow students to zoom smoothly in and out automatically. We have the adapter, just not the lens it works with.

Mr. T.
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Image Stabilization USM Lens (Black) • Amazon Business $599.00 1 $599.00

Materials cost

$599.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $54.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$692.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$122.26

Total project goal

$815.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $815.05

3 Donors

-$785.56

Donations toward project cost

-$692.79

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$29.49

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