Canon EF-S 17-85mm F4-5.6 IS USM
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13 years ago
Great walking-around lens. Fits a great range with great image quality.
This is an ideal gap lens for folks looking for fast glass and really good optical quality. I got this lens to replace my 18-55 and 18-200 lenses. The glas on this is better than both of those and I find this is more versatile for a walking around lens.
12 years ago
Great Lens
I just bought this lens and tried it over a 2 day period, shooting scenery and macro shots at the Botanic Garden. The greatest thing about this lens is you don't need to change lenses for different shots. I took wide angle shots, flower shots, macro shots of bees.
Pros:
- Focuses very close
- Very close focusing
- Fast / accurate auto-focus
Cons:
- Poor in Low Light
10 years ago
Great walking around lens for crop-sensor bodies
I've owned this lens for 10 years, having purchased it shortly after buying my 20D back in 2005. The lens has always performed perfectly for me - never a hiccup of any sort. To be fair, the lens does not produce "L-series" quality, but then, it's not an "L-series" lens.
8 years ago
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
I bought this lens when I upgraded from 50D to a 7D mark ii. The ability of the 7D mark ii to store in camera lens correction profiles is a game changer for lenses like this. It may not be a perfect lens, no lens is, but now you have the ability to fix it in camera without having to play around in...
Pros:
- Really great zoom range
- Good image stabilization
Cons:
- Not as good as my 17-40
- but hey what do you want for the price
18 years ago
I purchased my first DSLR Canon 30D with this lens. I have been very happy with it. It is quite sharp and shows very good colors. There is noticeable vignetting; however, I have been able to cure that with cropping. The best feature of this lens is it has image stabilization.
Pros:
- Very sharp
- Good colors
- IS
- Affordable
- Very good everyday lens
Cons:
- Noticeable vignetting
- Somewhat soft corners (not bad
- though)
18 years ago
The pictures below illustrate the focal length range from wide to telephoto:
Pros:
- Decent build quality - much better than any of Canon's 18-55mm kit lenses
- Very useful focal length range
- almost ideal for a walkaround lens
- Highly effective image stabilization
- Excellent autofocus and manual override
- Consistently high image quality across almost all of the range
Cons:
- Poor performance at wideangle
- with marked barrel distortion
- high levels of light falloff
- and intense green/magenta chromatic aberration
- Slow maximum aperture
- Very average close-up performance
20 years ago
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4~5.6 IS USM lens review
The Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4~5.6 IS USM was announced in August 2004 as general purpose zoom for Canon digital SLRs with EF-S lens mounts; compatible bodies include the EOS 300D / Rebel, EOS 350D / Rebel XT, EOS 400D / Rebel XTi, EOS 20D and EOS 30D.
Pros:
- Useful 5x optical zoom ratio
- Effective Image Stabilisation
- Fast USM focussing motor
- Polariser-friendly internal focusing
Cons:
- Visible light fall-off at wide and tele
- Relatively expensive for specification
- Lens hood not included
- Only compatible with EF-S bodies
18 years ago
not bad for the money
I got one of these as my first step up from the kit lens on my Rebel XTi, the 17-55 kit lens. It gave me about half of what I wanted but overall I was disappointed. It did not help that I came into this owning an S2 and an FZ5.
Pros:
- it's a nice range
- plus with IS it's much more useful than the kit lens
- and not too much more expensive
Cons:
- it's even slower than the kit lens focus isn't that great in low light
14 years ago
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM review
The first step up Canon's ladder of standard zoom lenses, at least from the kit lens supplied with the 550D and 600D , is the EF-S 17-85mm. It's better built, with a much sturdier feel than the Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS kit lens for those cameras.
13 years ago
The first step up Canon's ladder of standard zoom lenses, at least from the kit lens supplied with the 550D and 600D, is the EF-S 17-85mm. It's better built, with a much sturdier feel than the Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS kit lens for those cameras.
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