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vince
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Location: China
Posts: 304
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Review Date: Oct 23, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $200.00
| Rating: 6
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Very fast focusing (USM motor), decent build quality, compact and light.
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Average optical quality.
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This was the first zoom lens I got with the EOS-50 kit. It is quite well built and focuses very fast, but that's about as much as it has going for it, since the optical quality is just about average. Today even the cheap "dog-toy" 18-55 IS kit zoom of the 450/500D can destroy this lens in terms of optical quality.
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 Oct 23, 2009
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UltraVal
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Registered: Nov 8, 2006
Location: United States
Posts: 6
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Review Date: Oct 2, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $140.00
| Rating: 6
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Quiet focusing USM, good build, colors, range
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Images seem soft, even stopped down
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Maybe it's just my copy, I'm not sure, but I find this lens nothing to write home about. Most all pics I've taken with it seem so-so. I plan to continue to use it on occasion to hopefully determine whether it's a keeper or if I'll sell it.
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Oct 2, 2009
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photoelle
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Location: Canada
Posts: 76
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Review Date: Sep 20, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
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Good aperture range, 3.5-4.5 offers greater flexibility, price.
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Soft indoors, especially at the wide end, zoom allows dust inside the glass, poor contrast.
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I have 2 copies, one made in Japan, one made in Taiwan. The Japanese copy is the heavier of the two. The Taiwanese copy has dust inside the front element lens.
I needed this lens mostly for indoor work, with flash, and thought the aperture range was good for that. However, the pix were inconsistent and lacked contrast, especially at the wide open, wide end range.
Its much better outdoors mostly at f8-16, and is a great general purpose lens, but it can never begin to compare to a 2.8 lens.
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Sep 20, 2009
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dalephill2
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Location: United States
Posts: 485
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Review Date: Aug 13, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $150.00
| Rating: 9
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Great walk around, sharp, super build
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no hood
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This is my second 28-105, I sold my other one due to finiancial reasons and missed it ever since. It was superb then as it is now. Its just that good, its every bit as good as some of my other lenses. 55-250, better than the 18-55, and i'd swear its just as good as my 70-200f4, so yeah its a keeper this one, I love it.. not gonna let it go again.
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Aug 13, 2009
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tonyat
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Review Date: Jun 30, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $219.00
| Rating: 9
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Great range for outdoor events (45-168 ff equiv). Good color reproduction and pretty sharp in its sweet spot (f7-f16). Ring USM is fast and quiet.
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Not an indoor lens. It is usable wide open, but sharpness and contrast do suffer.
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Some say it is an awkward focal length on 1.6 bodies. I find it quite handy at outdoor events and even for landscapes. The lens really shines outdoors when you can stop it down just a little.
The handling is pretty good and the ring usm is why I can't bring myself to get something else. For the price, there isn't anything else that is as quick.
It can be used indoors, especially if you can hit the subject with flash.
I have used it indoors without flash at my daughter's events and have usable pictures, but this is not where it is at its best. I have found f2.8 and better primes do this job nicer for me.
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Jun 30, 2009
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digifilm
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Jun 22, 2009
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Price paid: Not Indicated
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Jun 22, 2009
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digifilm
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Location: United States
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Jun 21, 2009
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Rjmccutchan
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Review Date: Jun 18, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Sharp images, nice zoom range, price
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none for the price
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I bought this lens at the reccomendations of the reviews on this site, so I thought it was time to post mine.
I am very impressed with this lens. I paid $160USD with a canon A2 and grip attached to it. For the price, this lens produces excellent results. Obviously it is not capable of what the 2.8 lenses can do, but used in the range it is designed for, I could not ask for anything better. I photograph weddings and this is an excellent zoom range for weddings. I think if I had anything wider that 28mm, it would distort too much for group shots, and anything longer than 105mm would be too long to hand hold in available light. When shot wide open, the images tend to be a little soft, but useable. I mostly photograph weddings and personal stuff at 5.6 and up. I have a 50mm 1.8 if I needed. I was really impressed after the first wedding with it. I had a Konica/Minolta before Canon and I never had pictures as clear and sharp as this combination (10D and 28-105).
This lens does not like to be pushed to the extremes, but if you operate somewhere between, you should be pleased with the image quality.
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Jun 18, 2009
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spentomuch
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Location: United States
Posts: 159
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Review Date: Jun 8, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $180.00
| Rating: 9
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When I moved to nikon, I kept 1 canon dslr and 1 lens to play around with, and this is it. Mine is the japanese version.
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Jun 8, 2009
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PointNshootr
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Apr 7, 2009
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Recommend? no |
Price paid: $220.00
| Rating: 5
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Price
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Blurry Photos
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i am very disappointed with the sharpness of this lens. Perhaps i have a bad copy???
what i have found is that i can only really achieve adequate sharpness at around F9. wide open is blurry and shockingly the sample shot at F22 was blurry as well.
here are some sample shots, taken with a tripod.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28816055@N05/3422557044/" title="Canon 28-105 II F22 by s1ngletrack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/3422557044_ec0af29480.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Canon 28-105 II F22" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28816055@N05/3421746999/" title="Canon 28-105 II F9 by s1ngletrack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3421746999_252feedc77.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Canon 28-105 II F9" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28816055@N05/3422555232/" title="Canon 28-105 II F3.5 by s1ngletrack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3656/3422555232_2fb3e38bf5.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Canon 28-105 II F3.5" /></a>
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Apr 7, 2009
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rmeyer
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Feb 11, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $100.00
| Rating: 10
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Price, sturdy build, sharpness
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None so far
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I gave it a 10 because of price-to-performance ratio. Obviously this isn't in the same league as an L lens. But for a consumer-level lens it produces great shots.
I did a comparison between this lens and the absolutely fantastic 50mm f/1.8 -- same shot, both at 50mm, same aperture and shutter speed. At enough zoom to read the tiny letters below my TV's volume buttons, this zoom lens gave the prime lens a real run for its money in terms of sharpness. The 2 images are virtually identical.
It's slightly softer wide open at 28mm, but still very usable. Leagues above the 18-55mm kit lens, to say the least. This is now my primary walk-around lens and I don't think that will change until I get some L-series glass.
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Feb 11, 2009
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Michael Sanche
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Dec 28, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $228.00
| Rating: 6
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USM focus is accurate and fast in good lighting. Passes focus test chart testing at all focal lenghs wide open. Independent manual focus ring is a good add.
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Extremely soft at f3.5 and 28mm. Borders on unusable. For the most part, the lens is really only sharp at f8.
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I bought this lens with my Canon EOS 350D in Sept. 2007 and have used it as the main lens on the camera since then.
In testing utilized the well known focus test chart with this lens and the EOS 350D, and, although there is noise in the focus outcomes, the focus point is always within the depth of field for this lens with any aperature choice. Something that is not always, or even often, true with the kit lenses.
At 105mm wide open portraits, outdoor and in good lighting, are OK with a good blurred background.
At 28mm the lens is soft at all aperatures and, honestly, not really usable at f3.5 unless one is willing to accept images that look post processed with a softening filter.
The range on the lens, 28-105, is not wide enough really for the crop sensor.
I would not recommend this lens for the crop sensor cameras for Canon. I am trying to move to another lens but this is a challenge as I read about some people obtaining 5 copies of a lens and finally getting a good one.
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Dec 28, 2008
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