Canon EF 28mm lens
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| Awesome! 09/01/2010 This lens is great if you put it on a 1.8x crop factor body. Quick sharp focus even in low light. I use this as my main lens for (small) gig photography and can't fault it. Def worth the money! I can't see how the 24mm or 35mm pro lenses could be worth three times as much? By Mr. C. Muscat | |||||
| Great lens !!! 07/02/2009 Bought this from Amazon a few months back as I have a Canon 50 f1.4 which I find not wide enough on my EOS 40D. Everything I've read about this lens is true. Its built better and feels more solid than the EF 50 f1.4, it focuses very quick (a lot quicker than the 50 1.4) - thanks to "Real" USM. Acceptable image sharpness at f1.8 and gets better as stepped down. Great focal length with my 40D. The only complain I can make so far is that it doesn't come with a lens hood - c'mon Canon! By MR. Bates England | |||||
| Great little lens, bad CA issues 17/07/2010 I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this little lens. There are many things I really love about it, but there's one big fat negative. Let's start with the good: + Small, light, and fast enough for indoor work. This is the reason I love little primes for travel, family events, and portrait work. They are smaller, lighter, easier to carry, and offer great creative options + Reasonably sharp wide open. Stopped down to f/2.8, it's very sharp and contrasty + Build quality is excellent. This lens is very nicely built, has great smooth quiet autofocusing, and the focusing ring is nice and wide enough to comfortably use. I like that it's heavier than my nifty fifty and has a solid metal mount. + Great focal length for a 1.6 crop body. On my 7D, this lens is fabulous. The field of view on a 1.6 crop body is near the classic 50mm on 35mm film length. It's a great focal length for shooting family events and get-togethers. Very little distortion from this lens make it a good fit for portraiture also. + Color saturation and contrast are excellent. This little lens renders color wonderfully especially under great lighting conditions. It's a substantial change from the nifty fifty in this department. + Beautiful OOF (out of focus) areas. The bokeh is wonderful on this lens. It's creamy and very smooth. Now, for the big fat con. - The CA (chromatic aberration) is horrible on this lens wide open and even stopped all the way down to f/4. On the 7D, this is much less noticeable, but on my 1D2 (1.3 crop sensor), the CA in the corners is absolutely horrendous at f/1.8. I'm talking about huge blatant purple and green fringing in all four corners that distract from the subject in areas where white meets darker colors in the corners and along the edges of the frame. This is very unfortunate, as this lens is really great in all other departments. I was sorely disappointed when I first saw this, and I can't imagine how bad it is on a full frame body in the corners. Although CA can be removed in post processing, CA to this degree should not be present for a lens this expensive. It's really no excuse for it. When I first saw it, I thought my lens was faulty, but after taking it to a local service center, turns out, it isn't. If you avoid high contrast areas in the corners of your images, you'll be perfectly delighted with this little lens. I am keeping mine simply because there are no other affordable options in this focal length and speed from Canon currently, and the image quality (aside from the CA) is very good. It's light, easily portable, and a decent value for the money. I just avoid high contrast areas in the edges of my frame when it is mounted to my 1D2. If you are looking to buy this lens, be very aware of the CA issues, and think about whether this will be a substantial problem for you. If so, I'd recommend saving for the 24L, 35L, or 17-40 L instead (if you don't need f/1.8) if you can. The 17-40 controls CA much better than this lens does at the cost of speed and size. If not, this little lens is a good choice. Unfortunately, Canon doesn't currently offer many fast prime lenses under 35mm that are affordable for most people, and of the lot of them, this is the best one with regards to build quality, speed, and image quality. I hope to see an update to this lens very soon as it could be a great lens. By E. Martin Miami, FL USA | |||||
| "A good lens with a bad Internet rap", compares well to Sigma 30mm 16/07/2010 "A good lens with a bad Internet rap" - that's what I read about this lens while doing my research on it, and now that I own it, I must say that it's probably the truest thing I've read. While not perfect, it's not nearly as bad as most reviews would have you believe. I spent a long time choosing between this lens as well as Canon 35mm, and Sigma 30mm. I finally eliminated 35mm for not having USM, which I find quite nice. I really didn't want Sigma just because I like primes, and I want a collection of primes that I can use both on my current crop, and on my future full-frame. In addition, Sigma seems notorious for focus issues that need calibration, which I was not looking forward to. But everyone was raving about Sigma, so I ended up getting both 28mm and Sigma 30mm, to compare. I got Canon first and the first trial shots were HORRIBLE, I was very disappointed. Then Sigma arrived and I did comparison shots. Suddenly, the lenses behaved very well and photos turned out very comparable. Sigma did seem to have a SLIGHT edge in sharpness and bokeh over Canon. But I felt that the two drawbacks of Sigma, that I mentioned above, were more major than a slight advantage I would get by choosing Sigma. So, I returned Sigma and kept Canon. So far, the only thing I'm not happy about (thus the 4 stars and the "not perfect" comment) is how unkind it seems to the sky. I've had more blown out skies with this lens than with 50mm or 85mm. Before I get a bunch of comments telling me to learn how to use my camera instead of complaining - I'd like to point out that a few other reviewers on here seemed to also note that this camera gets overwhelmed by light particularly easy, so I'm guessing it's not just me. Another thing I've read a lot and that I found true - 28mm does seem to hunt for focus a bit more than my 85mm, but so far it has not been an issue, and Sigma hunted in similar conditions as well. By Ana_y_lat Houston, TX | |||||
| A good buy 28/06/2010 I like this lens a lot. I use it most f the time when I run around with my camera and for portraits of more than one person. Also if I shoot in a small space this lens gives me enough room to shoot the portrait where the 50mm would cut of things. I am very pleased with the buy and would recommend this product to anybody who wants to spend this kind of money. By Zuza Chicago, IL | |||||
