REVIEW: Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Lens Review

Handling and features This classic wide angle prime from Canon provides a wide angle field of view, fast, silent focusing and a bright f/1.8 maximum aperture. With this lens costing around ￡380, could it be the perfect budget solution for hand held low light shooting?

Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM - Review / Test Report

The optical construction is made of 10 elements in 9 groups with one aspherical element. Its minimum focus distance is 0.25m resulting in a max. object magnification of 1:5.5. The aperture mechanism has 7 aperture blades. The filter size is 58mm.

Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Lens Review

Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM is one of the two (the other one being EF 28mm f/2.8) 28mm lenses in Canon's modern lineup. The lens was introduced back in 1995, and currently remains the fastest consumer oriented (read non L) wide angle offered by the company.

Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Lens

The Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 lens was evaluated for use in wide field astrophotography. The following information on resolution and 50% MTF is applicable to all photographic uses of the lens.

Canon EF 28 mm f/1.8 USM

One of the oldest lenses in the Canon's current line-up is an EF 28 mm f/1.8 USM model, as it was launched on the market in September 1995. Why the company doesn't see any need to introduce its successor

good build quality; very good image quality in the frame centre (apart from the maximum aperture); slight distortion; low level of vignetting on APS-C; silent and quick autofocus

weak image quality at the maximum relative aperture; low resolution at the frame edge of an APS-C and full frame sensor alike; quite significant chromatic aberration; huge coma; unsatisfactory accuracy of the focusing mechanism