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 enlarge | Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $690.00
Buy New: $299.00
You Save: $391.00 (57%)
New (46) Used (14) Refurbished (2) from $275.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  166 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Optical Zoom: 4.8
Maximum Focal Length: 135
Minimum Focal Length: 28
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.6 x 4.4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 2562A014AA
Model: 2562A014AA
UPC: 082966213427
EAN: 4960999213422
ASIN: B00006I53S
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Starter Lens June 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been using this lens for around 3 months and I am very pleased with it. A lot of my friends told me to buy 3rd party lens with greater range (18-200) etc. but in the end I beleive I made the right choice.
Image quality is great, but the best is the affordable Image Stabilisation function. I would recommend this lens for all the first upgraders from the kit lens
Default go-to walkabout lens June 2, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is my default walk-around lens on my 40D. The focal length range (28-135) spreads between "normal" (as your eye sees it, approximately) to a pretty decent mid-range telephoto (on a "cropped sensor" camera; on a 5D the range would be from mild wide-angle to low telephoto).
Downsides:
1. The IS is single-mode. There is no "panning" IS mode, which I often find useful on my 70-300.
2. The max aperture is "consumer-level", ranging from 3.5 at 28mm to 5.6 at 135. I often really feel it at the telephoto end, having to go to a higher ISO sensitivity just to get the shot.
3. IS may not be incredibly useful at the wide end.
4. Relatively heavy (although not compared to the L lens you would get to "fix" any of the other downsides here!)
Upsides:
1. Very sharp, crystal-clear pictures at every zoom, even fully "wide open" (at max aperture).
2. Smooth, fast, accurate focusing.
Overall, a solid, go-to lens. When going out on a hike, this is the one I'm most likely to grab from my lens bag (unless I'm wanting to go ultra-light with the 50mm 1.8). I generally don't use it for sports photography, as the tight end of the zoom just isn't tight enough (and I can get a wider aperture at 135 from my 70-300). Inside, it's a good lens for wider-than-50 (equivalent to 80mm on my sensor) shots, substituting IS stability for larger aperture. The downside as an indoor lens is that the IS only stabilizes my hand, not the subjects, and doesn't de-focus the background like a large-aperture lens can.
IS system works well. I find myself able to hand-hold shots quite often where without IS I would have ended up with nothing but blurs.
 Excellent Lens for the money May 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great lens! I've been using it for the past year and have no complaints. For the money it delivers each and every time with great, clear and colorful images. Is it comparable to Canon's "L" series lenses? No, but you have to pay two to three times the price for one of those lenses. If you're budget is small and you're looking for a great lens to be your basic "all-purpose" or "walk-around" lens then this is the one. Check out my website [...] if you'd like to see more sample images from this lens. All of the pictures on the site are taken with this lens mounted on a Canon 40D. You can buy this lens today and have no regrets.
 Great Until... May 27, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I got this lens as a birthday present for myself and was very happy with it for a couple of weeks. As others have written, the 28-135mm range makes this a great walk-around lens. About three weeks after I bought it the camera worked intermittently no matter what the mode (Auto or TV for example). Sometimes the camera would fire, sometimes it wouldn't. Sometimes I would get an "Err 01" message ("Communication between camera and lens is faulty. Clean the lens contacts"). Needless to say, it wasn't dirty contacts on my brand new lens or camera body. I put the kit lens back on and it worked perfectly. When I put the EF 28-135 lens back on, I noticed that even when the lens clicks into position I could still move the lens on the body a tiny bit. Sometimes I could rotate the lens enough to align the contacts and take a picture, sometimes not. Pretty disheartening...
I bought the lens on Amazon who used Adorama to sell it to me. Adorama's policy is no refunds or exchanges after 14 days. I tried calling them to see if they might cut me some slack and got a busy signal all morning. I gave up and called Canon. After a 6 minute wait they were pleasant and told me how to ship it for repair.
By the way, the service representative advised me NOT to ship it in the original box because I probably wouldn't get it back.
I'll post an update to this review when I get my lens back.
Best lens for the price, period!!! May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I dont know how this lens can be put down for the range and versatility it offers. No, we aren't going to be using this as our primary lens on the 5D, 1DSMKXX, etc. etc. But on the cropped sensor cameras, it produces exceptional results all in a compact package. Lets see a point and shoot camera do what a currently selling Canon XT/XTI or even used 20D with this bargain priced lens can do by comparison. People not liking the lens should be shooting with the 5D and their good glass, not the other way around...
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