Canon EF-S 17-85mm F4-5.6 IS USM
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17 years ago
Love it!
I purchased this lens looking for something that was powerful enough to capture candid close-ups, vivid landscapes and action photos. The 17-85MM is by far my favorite lens in my camera bag. It's a versatile, compact and easy to handle.
Pros:
- Consistent Output
- Easily Interchangeable
- Lightweight
- Quick Focus
- Sharp Focus
17 years ago
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Review
Boasting an impressive 5x zoom range this is a versatile lens.....
Pros:
- Solid feel and 5x zoom range
Cons:
- Barrel distortion
- wide-aperture resolution
17 years ago
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Review
Boasting an impressive 5x zoom range this is a versatile lens. It also benefits from both image stabilisation and an ultrasonic motor, together with an extended focusing range that is proclaimed via the ‘macro' moniker on the lens barrel.
Pros:
- Solid feel and 5x zoom range
Cons:
- Barrel distortion
- wide-aperture resolution
17 years ago
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 USM IS - Retest @ 15MP / Review
The lens is often considered as an upgrade path from the basic EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS kit zoom. Obviously it adds quite a bit of range, a 2nd generation image stabilizer and a ring-type USM drive with full-time manual focusing.
17 years ago
Great Lens . . . one of my favorite
This is a great lens. I've used this lense on both my Rebel XTi and my Canon 20D with great success. The autofocus is quick and the Image Stabilization is fantastic. And the lense is very easy to keep clean and provides outstanding images.
Pros:
- Consistent Output
- Durable
- Easily Interchangeable
- Easy To Clean
- Lightweight
- Rugged
- Sharp Focus
- Strong Construction
Cons:
- None so far
17 years ago
Great Lens . . . one of my favorite
This is a great lens. I've used this lense on both my Rebel XTi and my Canon 20D with great success. The autofocus is quick and the Image Stabilization is fantastic. And the lense is very easy to keep clean and provides outstanding images.
Pros:
- Consistent Output
- Durable
- Easily Interchangeable
- Easy To Clean
- Lightweight
- Rugged
- Sharp Focus
- Strong Construction
Cons:
- None so far
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
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
Some love it, some hate it, I think it's a great lens.......
I've been staring at this lens for quite some time. I've read a LOT of reviews of this lens, some lo
Pros:
- IS
- stationery front element
- good range for walk around lens
Cons:
- Many have bad things to say about it
- slow max aperature
- C sized sensors only
18 years ago
Canon EF-S 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM
The Canon EF-S 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM is the lens that I bought to replace the Sigma 18-125mm F3.5-5.6 DC. It was Canon's first EF-S zoom lens with IS (image stabilizer). It was significantly more expensive than the Sigma it replaced.
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