The Canon EF-s 15-85mm is an excellent lens for any photographer. In the 1990s my wife and I took a trip to Europe and I took my trusty Canon A1 with the FD 28-85mm f4 lens along with a few filters and some 20 rolls of film.

I have had this lens for one and a half years, and it has been a nice mate for my camera. It is great: very sharp from 15 to 85 mm (although not so much in the corners at its widest aperture), very good at f11 for landscape photography.

Sharp; quick focus; good range

Non constant aperture: f5.6 is a bit slow

At a casual glance Canon's 15-85mm lens looks inferior to Nikon's 16-85mm in one important aspect: it has only a single-mode image stabilisation system against the Nikkor's dual-mode system.

Excellent handling and IS system

Drop-off in MTF curves

With Image Stablisation, UD elements and an Ultrasonic Motor, is this feature-filled objective the perfect kit-lens replacement?

Excellent handling and IS system

Drop-off in MTF curves

I purchased this lens for a trip to Yellowstone and it performed great! I got it refurbished from Canon. The zoom range is ideal for walk around.

Very Sharp; Good color and contrast; IS works great and AF is spot on

Wish it was 77mm instead of 72, so more of my filters would fit it; Price still a little high

The EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM zoom lens is one of two lenses announced by Canon in September when details of the EOS 7D were revealed. It's offered with the 7D body in the Platinum kit and covers a wide-to-telephoto zoom range of roughly 5.6 times.

The Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM is a general-purpose lens designed for Canon's range of cropped-frame DSLRs, which means all bodies apart from those belonging to the 5D or 1D series.

Flexible range including 24mm coverage; Sharp details into the corners; Quick and quiet USM AF with non-rotating barrel; Smooth manual focusing ring and distance window

Poor vignetting with visible darkening in corners; Modest image stabilisation in our tests; Some creep between 24 and 50mm (actual); As usual for a non-L lens; no hood supplied

A 5.6x standard zoom for Canon EF-S compatible cameras, which provides an angle of view equivalent to a 24-136mm lens on a 35mm camera, plus a 4-stop image stabiliser.

Distortion; Vignetting at 15mm; Flare and ghosting performance (no lens hood supplied

It's not easy deciding on the best lenses to get for your EOS SLR, and Canon's just made it that much harder. This brand new 15-85mm is a high-spec, high-quality ‘standard' zoom for EF-S format Canons – they're the ones which aren't full-frame, and include the EOS 1000D, 450D, 500D, 50D and the new...

This is a very good lens. I just opened it yesterday and I won't go as far as to say I am thrilled, but I am very encouraged. The first thing that strikes you about the lens is the build quality.

Fast; accurate focus; Best built EF-S lens to date; No lens creep - YEAH; Center sharpness; Its aesthetically a good looking lens; Very useful zoom range; CAs seem to be well controlled

Only 3.5 at its widest and drops to 5.6 as you zoom; Wish it were 2.8 for most of the range, but I tend to think the cost would have been prohibitive for an EF-S lens, If you use the lens indoors and want fast photos, you'll need a flash, you'll need a hot shoe flash to minimize the vignetting at...