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Good quality lens, well built, feels heavy and solid in the hands while using. Autofocus is really fast, smooth and quiet because of the USM motor. A good upgrade from the kit lens that canon provides because it has a wider focus range that is more useful from the wide angle to zoom. Put this lens on a APSC body camera and you get more focus range and becomes 24mm to 136mm. So overall happy with this and image quality end result
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Bought to match a 7D body bought on e-bay in hopes will cover the range of 'standard' lens sizes from widish angle to short telephoto portrait length, which it does well. Not very fast with maximum aperture f3.5, although the stabiliser helps. However, fast Canon lenses don't come cheap and for a start-up lens this covers a great range from 35mm equivalent 24 - 136mm zoom. Solidly constructed with positive but light zoom and manual focus action. Have not noticed any lens creep although has no lock. Is very quick and extremely quiet to focus and cannot really detect any difference in speed or noise when the image stabiliser is on. The wide 72mm filter size is a larger than most lenses and a pain as need separate set of filters just for this lens. Makes having a Cokin holder with a range if adaptors a better option, perhaps? My previous camera had an 18-200mm Tamron zoom and this Canon lens is noticeably wider and sharper although at wide angle and wide aperture with any filter on the front there is noticeable vignetting especially top left, for some reason!?Read full review
In the short time that I have had this lens it has shown me how inflexible my existing lens was. The wide angle is perfect without any deformation and the Telephoto is good and sharp even if a little on the short side. But I suppose you can't have everything particularly at the price.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Excellent all-round lens with great focal length and very sharp images. It is also fairly compact and perfect to accompany 70-300mm lens. Also would say better than 18-135mm lens as it is sharper and wider.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
This lens is living up to the reviews I've read about. I researched it, extensively, and it has not disappointed. I would highly recommend it. The pictures represent the extremes of the focal range. 15mm for the landscape and 85mm for the flower. Both at ISO 100. The close-up filter set is not something that I would waste my money on. It was a bonus with the lens.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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