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FCWquest
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Location: United States
Posts: 315
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Review Date: Nov 18, 2005
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Price paid: $79.00
| Rating: 9
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Price! Pretty sharp, works well for those who don't want to spend the extra $$$ on the 1.4 version. I have no problem with the build, it's so small.
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Cheap build, although I don't have a problem with it, a little soft wide open.
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This is a great lens that you can just go out and buy! It's dirt cheap, pick it up just to mess around if you want! f/1.8 is really fun for just playing around and sparating the background. I would reccomend this as a great multi-purpose lens and can be used for indoor shots too with the wide aperture.
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 Nov 18, 2005
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incdigital
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Nov 16, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $70.00
| Rating: 8
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Solid performer for a tiny price tag, Sharpness is close to or equal to Canon 50mm 1.4, Compact
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Cheap Build
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Nov 16, 2005
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jiveorama
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Location: United States
Posts: 68
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Review Date: Nov 11, 2005
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Price paid: $79.00
| Rating: 8
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Cheap, sharp, best upgrade from kit lens for FF cameras imho
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focus ring. slow AF.
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I got this lens a couple of months ago to replace my
28-80 USM V kit lens that I got with my Rebel G years ago.
Wow. Way sharper, and just great for low-light/indoors.
It also tought me to use the foot zoom.
The focus is slower and noisier than my old kit lens, but
for what I'm currently doing, it's fine.
Did I mention it's cheap?
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Nov 11, 2005
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Klane
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Location: United States
Posts: 696
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Review Date: Nov 11, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $99.00
| Rating: 9
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Sharp, Light, compact, good Bokeh, price
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Plastic, Manual Focus ring isnt great
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Bought this at my local camera shop because they are nice guys, so paying and extra $10 or so was no biggie. The lens is awesome for the money, and great for low light indoor shots. Sharp even at 1.8, stop it down a few and you have a brilliant lens for little cash. A must have.
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Nov 11, 2005
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drwho9437
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Review Date: Nov 10, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $70.00
| Rating: 9
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Fast, lite, sharp, lite, small filters, did I mention lite
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MF ring, no dist scale
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First that guy who payed $9190 for this baby overpayed a bit... (no doubt not USD but it throughs off the average).
The fantastic plastic, its a great lens. On a 1.6x body its a nice 80mm 1.8 good for portrait and street to some extent.
Some people might complain about the build, my personal feelings are that the MKI would be just about perfect in my build pref for build. I don't like heavy lens at all. Some people seem to equate weight with good build. That said the build on this the MKII isn't the greatest. My complaint is mostly the MF ring and lack of a distance scale.
A lens in the end is about what kind of pictures it can take, this one is very capable. There is no better lens for the money. If only it were still a 50mm on a 1.6x then we'd really be talking, but an 80 is useful too.
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Nov 10, 2005
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pablo_rj
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Location: Brazil
Posts: 109
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Review Date: Nov 3, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $9,911.00
| Rating: 9
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Bokeh, weight, clearness, colors, price
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not usm
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My first clear lens. I was made an impression with the quality in relation to the price of the lens.
Clear from f2, but in the maximum opening it is good. The only one however is not to be USM.
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Nov 3, 2005
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gaalpoel
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Location: Netherlands
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Review Date: Oct 22, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $107.00
| Rating: 9
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Cheap, fast, sharp. Light to take with you where ever you go. Useable at f1.8.
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Plastic (feeling).
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Very good lens for the money, buyed my copy for €90 ($107) and it's worth every cent. Sharp at 1.8 and even sharper when stopped down. Saved many shots in low light conditions where other lenses failed, and the use of flashlight was not possible.
Should be in your bag everywhere you go.
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Oct 22, 2005
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Harvison
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Review Date: Oct 14, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $98.00
| Rating: 9
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This lens is sharp, wide open is a little soft, but not much and can be expected. Very inexpensive.
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Cheap plastic mount, but for the price you still can't beat it.
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Oct 14, 2005
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Gino02GT
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Review Date: Oct 13, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $75.00
| Rating: 8
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Very sharp a couple of stops down, small, light, VERY inexpensive
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Any downsides of this lens can be directly attributed to the fact you're only paying $75 for a very sharp lens.
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Build quality, 5 blade aperature, plastic mount...........it's $75, you really can't be too picky at that level. Once you move past that you'l get one of Canon's lightest, smallest lenses. After hauling around some small, medium, and somewhat large L's, attaching this onto my camera really is a nice change of pace.
Stop it down to about f/4 and you'll get results that you might not have thought possible with such a (relatively) small contribution from your wallet.
Buy it. I read the same statement from these boards and went with it. They were right, I agree, and now I say it again: just buy it.
ESPECIALLY if you're new to photography, this is the perfect lens to serve as an introduction to prime and large aperature lenses. Coming from a point-and-shoot to a 300D and one of these really opened the doors of photography to me.
Now I'm a multiple body and L lens carrying junkie 
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Oct 13, 2005
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mlavander
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Review Date: Oct 13, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $74.00
| Rating: 10
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The best lense Canon makes considering price!
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Slow AF in lower light.
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Awesome bokeh, great for portraits or action shots at dusk w/o flash...i.e. mountain biking on the camus of Western MI U. Very light weight, build quality isn't too bad. When the focus hits, it is extremely sharp. For the price, it cannot be beat! A must have lense for every photgrapher...unless you already have the f/1.4.
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Oct 13, 2005
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gretar
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Location: Iceland
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Review Date: Oct 13, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Sharp, light, fast and $
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for $80, none.
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Quite surprized by this small inexpensive lens. Very responsive, fast and light. Anyone on a budget (cannot buy L-series lenes) should own one. I've also tried the 50 mm/1.4, yes a better lens but 3 or 4 times more expensive. Build og sounds from the focus motor do not bother me. Examples of pictures using the 50 mm/1.8 with my Rebel XT taken during the last few days here in Iceland are to found at
http://www.simnet.is/gretar.ivarsson/
The pictures were all shot in raw and converted with ACR and PS CS2.
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Oct 13, 2005
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dwolfbearer
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Registered: Oct 4, 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 945
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Review Date: Oct 11, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $75.00
| Rating: 7
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Inexpensive, light-weight, fast
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Not-so-sharp, cheapest build ever, loud
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Decent lens if you are REALLY on a budget. I'd recommend upgrading the a 85 f/1.8 or 35 f/2 instead of this. In this range, I find my 17-85 to be of comparable quality, and my 70-200 f/4 was considerably better.
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Oct 11, 2005
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VictorEngel
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Location: United States
Posts: 24
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Review Date: Oct 10, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $70.00
| Rating: 7
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The lens is small, light, and sharp (but see cons). It's also extremely affordable.
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Focus issues. Sometimes getting good focus seems to be like playing Russian Roulette.
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My main gripe about this lens is the lack of precision in focusing. It's almost as if the cogs making up the gears are too big, or that it operates using a stepper motor with not enough steps. I had to get three lenses before I found one that focused reasonably accurately. All three did the thing where it refocuses when already in focus if you depress the focus button. Due to a focusing issue, I sent it in to Canon for calibration (along with my other lens and Canon 10D camera). Unfortunately, the first time I sent it in, they didn't really do anything, so I had to send it in again. And finally a third time. The good news is that after the third time, it stopped doing its refocus thing. Another manifestation of this "refocus thing" is if you put the camera in AI Servo mode, mount the camera on a tripod and focus on a flat subject, say a meter or two away, the lens refocuses so wildly it almost seems to vibrate. It no longer did this after the third time into the shop.
I don't know whether the problem was my camera or lens or the combination, but this issue did not manifest with other lenses.
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Oct 10, 2005
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bkriete
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Location: United States
Posts: 396
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Review Date: Oct 8, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $85.00
| Rating: 9
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Versatile, inexpensive, light-weight, nice picture quality and very fast, balances nicely on 300D
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Focus ring is terrible for manual focus, seems to hunt in poor light despite being a fast lens.
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This was the first lens I bought to use on my 300D. I have used it quite a bit for portraits, concerts, and even some landscape-type shots. It remained permanently attached to my camera for several months after I got it. For the price, it's a great lens; if it was twice as much it still wouldn't be a bad buy. I don't mind the plastic lens mount, and the build quality is perfectly adequate for my use. I have dropped it off my desk and dropped my camera a foot or two, lens-first, with this lens attached in an unpadded bag with no negative consequences.
The only drawbacks I notice with this lens are that the focus seems to hunt more in low-light than my USM-equipped lenses, even though this lens is twice as fast as any of them, and that the manual-focus ring is ergonomically very poor, being perhaps a 1/4" thick and offering a relatively poor "feel" to focusing.
I think it's a very useful and versatile lens, and certainly worth buying. I would be happy to answer any questions about my experiences with it, or provide sample pictures.
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Oct 8, 2005
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2bruce
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Registered: May 18, 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 280
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Review Date: Oct 3, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $469.00
| Rating: 8
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price colurs sharpness weight
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Fanstic lens for the price very sharp light and 1.6 crop its great for portraits at 80mm
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Oct 3, 2005
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jasonblmu
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Review Date: Sep 17, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $80.00
| Rating: 9
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Sharp and inexpensive. Produces really nice photos in low-light, especially with 20D high ISO performance. Great for portraits!
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Relatively noisy AF and can tend to be slow in low-light..manual focus ring is so small!
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As most have said, this is a must have in many bags. Not only for the sharpness of the photos it can produce but for lack of space it takes up in your bag and the price!
I have the 20D, so I can't say that I use this lens as a walk-around, the 1.6x crop is just too much for indoor group photography, which is what I tend to do a lot of. However, for working outdoors at party's and such this lens comes in very handy. Also, this is a great lens for portrait shots of 1-3 people, or even for pets. I also used this lens at an indoor soccer shoot which worked nicely because I had enough room for composing photos and I had the F/1.8 to work with the light! Photos came out very nice and the AF actually kept up!
For the few times that I have used this lens on the 20D, it has given me such quality photos that I have no regrets about the purchase.
Highly reccomend!
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Sep 17, 2005
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