Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM lens
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| Simply Amazing! 16/08/2010 This is the best Canon lens that I know of period! I have used it for close-ups, portraits, landscapes, even for studio shots. This lens is SHARP. Incredible contrast, resolution and aberration-free. There is no zoom lens, no matter how expensive, whose quality compares with this lens. On the negative side, this lens is heavy and has no image stabilization. But in terms of quality, it is unsurpassed. Using it as a macro will definitely require a tripod. Some form of stable platform will be needed in low light as well. Of course, some of the newer cameras have excellent quality at high ISO's, so this is becoming less of a problem. Not a lens for everyone. But if image quality is your primary concern, this lens cannot be beat. By J. Alexander Los Angeles | |||||
| great lens 31/03/2010 I am very happy with this lens and the whole shopping experience I had purchasing it. By Istvan S. Torok | |||||
| Overcame my fear of large online purchases! 25/03/2010 My transaction was quick and informative. I'm now more prone to make purchases through Amazon if not any other site. By T186kmps | |||||
| Yes, it's a great lens but make sure it's a great lens for you 06/11/2009 No one can complain about the quality of the construction or of the images that this lens produces. It's often considered a hidden gem in the Canon lineup as it gets thought of strictly as a macro lens and its use as a telephoto gets ignored. I'm going to give the lens its well-deserved five stars, but now tell you that you should be careful in picking this lens for your use lest it live, unused, in the bottom of your camera bag. This is a lens that I think you should rent to try out if it's interesting to you. I find that it's too long of a lens for most of the macro photography work I think of doing. Especially on a 1.6x crop body the magnification leaves you with very little depth of field and horrible subject vibration problems in the field. (You need a tripod for this, so photographer movement shouldn't be as much of an issue.) I find the 100mm macro lens to be much handier on both full frame and crop cameras. Others disagree, that's fine, but you should check it out yourself. On the telephoto front, a 70-200mm zoom with IS is a much more versatile setup. If macro work is only occasional, you could into extension tubes that let you go in close. By Michael A. Duvernois Minneapolis, MN United States | |||||
| Superb Lens 19/04/2009 Over the years I have owned both Canon's 50mm and 100mm Macro, they are excellent lens and substantially less expensive. If you want to shoot insects and other small, shy creatures outdoors the 180 mm Macro is the lens to get. Optically the lens is excellent in every way. The 'slow' focus is a function of the huge focal range of the lens, typically manual focus is used for macro photography - for general photography the focus limiter can be used to improve focus time. Construction quality is excellent - although the included lens hood is a rather cheap plastic design, however it functions fine. I use this lens on a tripod almost all the time - with Macro work you are normally are working a smaller apertures (f8-f16), so relatively slow shutter speeds are the norm - the tripod ring makes transitioning from portrait to landscape very easy. Additionally this quality of this lens allows the use of canons 1.4x teleconverter with minimal loss of quality - significantly increasing the 'reach' of this lens. This lens is a good general purpose 'short' telephoto - but not suitable for sports or action photography, Canon's EF 70-200 lenses or 200mm f2.8 lens make better alternatives. Image stabilization is not available for this lens and would make a very useful addition By J. Peabody Naples, FL United States | |||||
