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Great range, poor performance

Started Sep 26, 2015 | User reviews thread
halfwaythere Contributing Member • Posts: 893
Re: Great range, poor performance
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Erik van den Elsen wrote:

I bought this lens together with the EOS 7D. The combination of camera and lens range worked great; 15-85mm is equivalent to 24-135mm. This is the range you need in 90% of travel photography. The image stabilisation works very effectively, but what annoyed me more and more in the course of time were the soft images and the low speed of the lens.

Perhaps I just had a bad copy, but at a certain point I preferred my Sony RX-100 (with a much smaller sensor) over the EF-S 15-85 lens, because the images were simply sharper and had more brilliance. That was the point I decided to sell the 15-85. It's a shame because there are hardly any good lenses with this range. I know, it isn't an L-lens, but still fairly high priced.

Conclusion: If you go for the range and IS, this is a super performer. If you go for IQ, don't buy it, you will be disappointed.

Every user review should end with: My copy of this lens.... .

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