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Sobax
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Location: Canada
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Review Date: Nov 2, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $500.00
| Rating: 10
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Amazing lens, super sharp, great contrast, great price.For macro and portraits super lens!
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EF-S not EF
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If you like to take a look , how amazing this lens is....300 macro pics taken with that lens in my macro gallery:
http://www.pbase.com/sobax/macros
Thank you.
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 Nov 2, 2009
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MacHeadCase
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Location: Canada
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Sep 22, 2009
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platypus
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Location: United Kingdom
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Review Date: Aug 24, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Razor sharp! Small and light, great wide open, internal focus, handy focal length on crop body.
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No negatives. OK, wider aperture would be nice
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Wow- I've seen the light. The only prime I had used for years was the EF 50mm Mk1 which had a lovely sweet spot at middle apertures. This baby is so sharp wide open I think it out-resolves the sensor on my 40D. As another reviewer has noted, it's almost too sharp for portraiture. Haven't had the chance to take many macro shots yet, can't find my tripod 
Close-ups taken so far show it's great wide open near focus too.
This has to be one of Canon's finest. Recommended.
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Aug 24, 2009
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JRKO
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Location: United Kingdom
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Review Date: Aug 13, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Very small - becomes a 96mm f2.8 on a crop frame - fast - great bokeh - super sharp
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not for FF bodies
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I really miss mine - I had it with a 350D and used it for portraits as well as standard macro work. Now I'm FF I had to choose another macro lens....
The fast aperture allows for great selective focus by way of depth of field and the amount of detail it can retrieve is stunning. A great way into the world of macro photography....
The flower was taken from a tripod and shows how shallow the DOF is. The extremities of the petals are out of focus but the centre of the flower is sharp!
http://jrko.zenfolio.com/p922298177/h1c082c24#h1c082c24
This fly was taken at 1/1600 handheld using a quick burst to try to get the shot before if buzzed off!
http://jrko.zenfolio.com/p922298177/h1c082c24#h15c104c1
Buy it - enjoy it - keep it
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Aug 13, 2009
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bradc
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Review Date: Aug 10, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Size, image quality, USM focus
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EF-S only, subject distance
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It is hard to complain about this lens, it delivers sharp shots and doubles as a good portrait focal length with nice blur and a wider aperture. Compared to the 50mm Macro it is no contest (being USM and modern construction) unless you have a full frame camera.
I use it a lot for product / stock photography and it works great for that purpose, and the USM focusing can usually keep up with moving kids. That said the focusing doesn't feel as fast as non macro lenses with USM that I've used.
The only big negative is if you wanted to use this for outdoor or insect type macro photography (non still life). It just requires you get too close to the subject. I got this Macro out of Canon's lineup for the opposite reason - I want to not be so far away for what I do and 100mm or 180mm is too long for a portrait lens for me on a crop body. The 60mm is nice and small, lightweight, but feels well built.
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Aug 10, 2009
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robbrowett
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Review Date: May 27, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Excellent build quality, sharp, vivid images. Much cheeper than Ef-100 macro.
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Slow autofocus but then again it is a macro lens! Only EF-S mount.
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I have had this lens for a while but only really started using it with anger lately. It's wonderfully sharp. Build quality is excellent and the lens is fairly heavy. Quality feels solid, much better than other lenses I have such as EF-50mm f1.8.
Takes good portraits as the DOF is excellent.
I've used it successfully with a variety of extension tubes and the AF worked consistently with them all.
I find the autofocus is a little slow and the lens can hunt around a bit when trying to focus on small objects but I usually use MF mode when shooting macro anyway.
I've posted a couple of shots to show the quality and will add more soon. All I need now is a ring flash!
Look under the Macro section.
http://www.robbrowett.net/gallery/home/Default.aspx?action=gallery
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May 27, 2009
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stephenWsmith
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Location: Canada
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Review Date: Apr 5, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $325.00
| Rating: 10
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sharp, fast focus, small, light, amazing.
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Great lens not only for macro.
fast, light, sharp, quick, fast focus
all in all its a great lens, perfect for crop bodies.
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Apr 5, 2009
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mckenzy
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Location: Singapore
Posts: 5
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Review Date: Mar 3, 2009
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Recommend? no |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 6
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lightweight. good focal length for crop bodies
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not as sharp as EF100mm. colours not as contrasty as EF100mm
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After selling off the EF100mm f/2.8 macro which was too heavy to handhold for macro shots, i replaced it with this.
shot this side by side with a Leitz 60mm f/2.8
Positives:
its light, you can handhold macro shots. okay for portraits but not great. AF is fast enough even though its a macro. bokeh is nice
Negatives:
EF-S
Colours quite muted.
abit short for a macro unless you just take still life
not sharp wide open unlike the EF100mm
given a choice i would get the EF100mm again if i was just focussing on macro...
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Mar 3, 2009
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Photograff
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Location: Russia
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Review Date: Feb 11, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $390.00
| Rating: 10
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Super fast AF, sharpness, compact, colors, very good for non macro
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Supports only EF-S bodies
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For that money which I it have bought an excellent lens! Ate to it to add IS that was simply super! Sharpness at this lens amazing! It is possible to speak long, to see is better
http://www.bfoto.ru/bfoto_ru_79.php
http://www.bfoto.ru/macro.php
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Feb 11, 2009
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eL Philippe
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Review Date: Jan 9, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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The EF-S 60mm is an excellent macro lense. I'm using it with a Canon 50D, without flash until now and I can't really complain about anything. The AF is very fast, silent and the focus ring does not rotate while auto-focussing.
The bokkeh makes nearly every photo an artistic masterpiece.
For those of you like to keep their distance to their targets, remember that this 60mm lense will give you 1:1 at only 0.2m. The F/2.8 allows you to shoot sharp and detailed photos without flash.
ex.: http://g3ckko.deviantart.com/art/Ugly-Meal-106159243
http://g3ckko.deviantart.com/art/Prof-Dr-Joss-II-105487391
50D Crop 1:1 @ 125 ISO | Shutter 1/3 | F/6,3
http://g3ckko.deviantart.com/art/Spider-III-107949394
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I'd really like to share a negative aspect of this lense but I'm afraid I did encounter none until now... with the exception perhaps when I was handing the 375 Euros over to the guy I bought it from. I, however, do not regret the investment at all.
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Jan 9, 2009
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Peter 13
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Review Date: Jan 8, 2009
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Very sharp, good color, accurate AF
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some expected vignetting at f/2.8, some CA
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This lens is insanely sharp, even at f/2.8 (both at close distance and when taking portraits, for example). The first time I tested it, I could not believe my eyes – what, wasn’t the AA filter supposed to blur a bit even the sharpest image? The bokeh is creamy, much better than what I can get with my 70-200 f/4 IS. The photos that I take are stunning most of the time. The AF is quite accurate. Since it has internal focusing, the front element does not move.
I tested it against the 70-200 f/4 IS, the 50 f/1.8, and the 18-55 IS (the latter – just to evaluate how dimmer the EF-S 60 is compared to other lenses). The colors that I get from the macro lens are definitely better than those coming from 50 f/1.8; actually I was surprised to see how different they were. The L zoom has slightly warmer and more pleasant colors. The macro lens also shows excellent micro-contrast.
On the negative side: there is some CA, not much, that requires negative to positive correction in LR, depending on how close to the subject the lens is. It vignets noticeably at f/2.8, but that is to be expected. What surprised me a bit is that at f/2.8, this lens is dimmer than the 50 f/1.8 @ f/2.8 by 1/3 to 1/2 stop. It is also slightly dimmer than the 18-55 IS at f/5.6. Now, in real macro mode, the reported f/2.8 is not the real aperture, but I was surprised to see that effect at shooting distances 2-3 m. Anyway, this does not bother me.
I was torn between this lens and the 100 macro. This lens won me by being more portable. Also, 100 mm without IS would be of limited use without a tripod. For my intended use, the EF-S 60 seemed a better choice, an a crop camera, of course.
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Jan 8, 2009
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saurabh
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Location: New Zealand
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Review Date: Dec 27, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Cost, Sharpness, Bokeh, 2.8
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None
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Excellent lense and very hard to fault, excellent macro and potrait lense, runs very very close to 85mm for portraiture.
I am very pleased with the performence, autofocus is fast and quite and the build auality is very good.
Irrespective of the price it has performs very well.
Highly recomended.
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Dec 27, 2008
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