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October 4, 2011 lenses No comments

Fantastic lens. Best $2500 I have spent on camera equipment. After several thousand pictures, and dragging it around the world, from humid jungles, to subfreezing photo shoots, I have nothing but good to say about its quality, and my happiness with this lens. The quality is fantastic. The image stabalization works great. These are all the features I expect from the Canon L series.

The 28-300mm feature is tremendous. If you are on the small sensor cameras (D50, Rebel, etc), you need the 28 to get the every day use. If you are on the full size sensor professional EOS cameras, it gives you that wide angle versatility.

It is heavier and a little larger then some lens, but for the quality of glass you are getting, I do not mind.

The only thing I do not like about this lens is that there are no lock outs on the auto focus and lens function buttons. Occasionally, this means that they get bumped in field use, and you end up with a few non-focused pictures, the image stabalization is off, or the lens is seeking through a longer focal range then desired before it shoots. The only solution I have found it to be more careful before shots or put a wide rubber band around the lens (over the function buttons) to prevent them from being bumped.

The other thing I have found, is when using multiple lens for field use, it is inevidible that you will get dust on your sensors. Field lens change outs are just not desirable, and sensors are hard to keep clean. I am planning to buy a second EOS body to dedicate this lens to (where I never take off the lens) so that I can capture the perfection of this lens’ optical qualities without the worry of dust on the sensor compromising pictures. Unless you use really wide angle (which I sometimes do since I am on a small sensor D20 camera), this lens is all that you will need.

Would I recommend this lens? Absolutely! In my opinion, worth every penny.