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ronwischer
Duplainville USA
Registered: April 2002
Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin
Posts: 2939
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Review Date: Sat July 28, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $449.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Build Quality, Optics, IS
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None
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Probably one of the most popular walk around Canon Lenses.
Close to the perfect range for train photos, 28-135mm, and with the image stabilization, good for those with shaky hands or who like to shoot at slower shutter speeds.
The image quality this lens produces is excellent.
The colors are excellent.
A good solid build at a reasonable price makes this a must see lens.
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Check Out My:
HomePage - Photo Gallery
My Flickr My PhotoBucket
My Wisconsin Plus Forum (New)
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Railgeek
Engineer
Registered: August 2005
Location: Tacoma, WA- MP 6.7
Posts: 418
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Review Date: Sun July 29, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Build quality, IS, Ultrasonic focus, focus meter, macro abilites.
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Loud IS, sometimes the IS moves the picture around in the viewfinder, focus problems in low light.
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This is a good walk-around lens, I cant post the price because I loaned it from my brother. The IS on/off and the M/AF focus switches are located in a good place. Normally I use the wide end of this lens, and use my 70-200 f/4L for the longer shots.
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-Reed Skyllingstad
KE7FCQ
MP. 6.7, Tacoma, WA
Canon 10D
Canon 17-40 L
Canon 70-200 L
Sigmassive (Sigma) 120-300 2.8 EX
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kenw
5th Generation Texian
Registered: May 2002
Location: Cypress (Houston), Texas, USA
Posts: 2921
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Review Date: Mon December 10, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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good range, solid feel
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Cons:
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sucks dust
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This is an excellent general use railfan lens. It may not be the widest nor longest, but for average usages it will cover the bulk of the range. If you feel you need wider, you might be too close to the tracks…..
Realize that the IS won’t help with moving objects (like trains). It is valuable for low light stationary things where you can fudge on the 1/mm rule. The minimum aperture (Av) is only f3.5, so it is pretty slow; in certain conditions this is offset by the IS. If you look in my gallery, many if not most of the pics there are taken using this lens.
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More pics in the gallery:
http://www.railroadforums.com/photos...at=500&thumb=1
Have you broken any rules today? .....why not?
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Elmo
Brakeman
Registered: December 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 67
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Review Date: Wed December 19, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $200.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Sharp Enough, IS, Great railfan Zoom Range.
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Cons:
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Could have better build.
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I got this lens when our dog took up photography and wore my old camera around the house for several hours. I now watch where I leave straps hanging. Needing a replacement quickly all I could find were kits. The one I selected contained this lens. As it was a "kit" lense I started to leave it in the box and throw it away, thak goodness I did not! It has become my most used lens for railfanning. It shares my primary body with a 70-200.
It come without a lense shade, but I found out I liked that. I found that using a screw-in rubber lens hood make a polorizer much easier to use.
This lens serves my railfan purposes admiradily.
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