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bradc
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Location: Canada
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Review Date: Aug 10, 2009
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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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Location: United Kingdom
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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
Posts: 77
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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
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Review Date: Mar 3, 2009
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Recommend? no |
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| 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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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 8, 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 8, 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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Pros:
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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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photorudy
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Location: Netherlands
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Review Date: Nov 23, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Compact, robust build, perfect sharp pictures with nice background blur
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Cons:
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Can't think of any
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I bought this lens on a photography fair for only 175 euro's. I am really very satisfied with it, the pictures are perfectly sharp with vivid colors and great contrast. It is great for indoor portrait photography with available light. For macro I still have to practice a bit more I think.
The main problem is the large difference with the other lenses I've got. The results look pretty poor compared to the pictures of this lens.
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Nov 23, 2008
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skibum5
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Location: United States
Posts: 17305
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Review Date: Oct 13, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $400.00
| Rating: 10
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sharpness, contrast, AF, size, fully L build quality, low CA< extremely resistant to PF
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Cons:
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workign distance not that large at 1:1
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a superb performer
very quick and accurate AF for distant subjects
does get very endlessly hunty near macro if the lighting is not strong though
only downsides are that it doesn't work on FF (well maybe with a little tweaking and living with certain issues) and the working distance is a bit tight for nervous bugs.
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Oct 13, 2008
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David Collomb
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Location: United Kingdom
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Review Date: Jul 8, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Very sharp, colors, very good for non macro, built quality, light
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none
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Macro world is really great. The creativity it allows is endless and you don't need to travel to amazing places to find great subjects to shoot.
This lens is great in term of resolution / image quality / color.
Its macro use is excellent. Using it for other type of photos is also very good.
It was not a planed purchase but I am so happy I did it. I really like this lens and I can only highly recommend it.
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Jul 8, 2008
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Deadpool
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Location: United States
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Jul 2, 2008
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craigster
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Jun 24, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $370.00
| Rating: 9
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Good build quality; very sharp; excellent macro capabilities
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Sometimes slow to focus especially when traversing between macro and regular focus.
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This is my first Canon macro lens. Found it to be easy to use and quite satisfying to be able to get close ups of flowers, jewelry, and the like. Was pleasantly surprised by just how good the 60mm is when used as a portrait lens. Very sharp photos and a good fit for portraits even with the 1.6X factor on my Canon 30D.
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Jun 24, 2008
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Danpbphoto
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Jun 5, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Super fast AF-, extremely sharp, great contrast/color, lightweight. IMHO sharper/faster than 100mm and 180mm Macros I have own/owned.
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EF-S bodies only, Bokeh but that is expected from this focal length.
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I find this lens is ultra sharp! On my 20D it quickly finds AF and the result is almost always "dead-on" in sharpness. I have owned the 100mm and also own the 180mm and it outshines both.
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Jun 5, 2008
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klinker
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Location: Germany
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Review Date: May 20, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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sharpness, compact, small filtersize 52mm
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Cons:
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sometimes the focus searching at wrong end
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Absolutely a great lens!
I had the EF 85 1.8 before and the feeling is nearly the same built quality.
The sharpness is amazing.
Sometimes the AF "looks" in the wrong direction but its ok, for this wide range. But when he is right its fast and correct! See samplepics.
at f5
http://comeonletssmile.de/EFs60macro.jpg
at F6.3
http://comeonletssmile.de/EFs60macro1.jpg
Price is ok. Little filterdiameter 52mm.
EFS body only.
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May 20, 2008
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jj sach md
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Location: United Kingdom
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Review Date: Apr 28, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Price, weight, focal range, useful as macro and general lens
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Cons:
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focus hunts sometimes in non-macro situations
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It was a toss up between the Sigma 50 macro or this Canon EF-S 60. For a marginal amount of money more, I went for the Canon mainly because of the lens not extending. I find this lens very flexible in that it a a great macro lens but also a fantastic general use lens. Photos are sharp, colour reproduction is great. The lens is relatively small and easy to always carry around.
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Apr 28, 2008
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