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Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Review.

Started Dec 19, 2016 | User reviews thread
Henry Alekna Photography
Henry Alekna Photography Regular Member • Posts: 402
Re: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Review.

Steve Balcombe wrote:

Henry Alekna Photography wrote:

Thanks for the review! I have been looking at some old inexpensive EF glass on eBay and found one of these really cheaply, ($3.25 AUD currently). Have you tried this lens on a APSC camera by any chance? Seems like a very cheap way to get some more zoom reach!

I don't have one so please take this with a pinch of salt, but it's a very old design from the film era and optically it is not really up to the demands of modern digital sensors. The IS is also a very early version and not as good as in today's IS lenses.

Another point to bear in mind is that it's not a standard zoom on a crop camera - you would have no wide angle, though perhaps you already have that covered.

If you want something inexpensive to supplement an existing standard lens to give you more reach, I would recommend the EF-S 55-250 IS - preferably the STM version, but the older one is good too.

If you want to replace a standard lens with something better and with more reach, there is no very cheap solution but the 18-135 STM is often recommended.

Thanks Steve, I will give that one a miss then and pickup a 55-250 at some point.

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