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Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM Lens
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Used Price: £289.99
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EAN: 4960999240169
Label: Canon
Manufacturer: Canon
Maximum Focal Length: 85 millimeters
Minimum Focal Length: 17 millimeters
Model: 9517A008AA
Number Of Items: 1
Optical Zoom: 5 unknown-units
Publisher: Canon
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Studio: Canon
Sales Rank: 3763

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Step up from Kit Lens
This lens is pretty sharp at most apertures and has a very quick focus motor.
At wide angles chromatic aberration (bright red fringing) is clearly visible on a 10"x8" print in high contrast areas of the picture but can be reduced in Photoshop. Barrel distortion at the wide end is a bit extreme but again it can be corrected in photoshop.
The image stabilizer works well.
On balance very good value for money, but if you can afford the 17-55 f2.8 lens it is noticeably sharper across the range and has very little chromatic aberration. The 17-55's slight loss of telephoto is not really significant.

Rating:

- Far better than the 18-55 mm kit lens
I've bought this lens as a kit lens in Asia with a 400D (why not offer it in Europe as an optionnal kit lens Canon?) and it is the ideal starting lens. Good range (27-136 mm equivalent), sharper than expected, and reasonnably fast.

Rating:

- Superb
Despite it arriving late (due to the delivery company rather than Amazon directly), it was certainly worth the wait. The pictures I have captured already are superb considering they have all been taken indoors so far and definately out-perform the standard 18-55mm lens you now get with the eos 400D (the body I am currently using). I have waited a year to buy a replacement for my handy 17-55mm, looking around at all the different options but am glad I stuck with this one! The 17-55mm USM looks too large for my likeing and the cheapest L series version is far too expensive for my budget to allow (even if it is only around £100 more!) However, after reading several magazine reviews I came to learn that this lens is the best all-rounder and cheapest ... Read More:

Rating:

- Gives Photography another Dimension
I bought this lens as part of the kit, with a Canon EOS 30D last May, now almost a year later I feel I know both the camera and the lens well. The focal range of this lens is perfect for so much - from photography people to nature it is the perfect walk about lens. Added to the fact that it has Image Stabilisation, it seems to give the whole process of photography another dimension. I have recently taken a load of pics at a nephew's wedding, taken both inside and out, with and without flash (Canon 430EX - which incidently is amazing too) using RAW, and must say that even I, who is so critical of his own work, think they are far better than anything I ever took on my old SLR. The quality of the lens is great and cannot really be faulted.
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Rating:

- A good lens for general purposes...
I think this lens is good enough for many dSLR users. It suits anyone who love taking lanscape pics. IS helps a lot. However, its maximum aperture is 4 so you're rarely able to freeze a moving object.(except that you hv a plenty of light) IS doesnt matter to do this. Although it cannot compare with L-series lenses, do you actually need that quality? Overall....it's very good for many situations and for traveling.

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