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Some advice please
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Ok folks,
I have an Eos 450D with the folliwng lenses:
18-55 IS kit lens
Tokina 12-24 WA lens
50mm 1.4 lens
Sigma 55-200 lens.
I’m delighted with the quality from them all and find myself using mainly the kit lens and the Tokina WA lens (for now). The quality of the 50mm is unbelieveably good, but as it’s an EF lens it’s the equivalenty of a 70mm (I think :oops: ).
I’d like to buy one more and am looking at either the 35mm http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Canon-EF-35mm-f-2-0-Wide-Angle-Autofocus-Lens-In-UK_W0QQitemZ190225237548QQihZ009QQcategoryZ30070QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
or the 28-135 IS lens http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Canon-EF-28-135-IS-USM-Lens-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ330240212276QQihZ014QQcategoryZ4687QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
The 28-135 gets terrible reviews. Is it that bad. Any suggestions?
cheers,
Freddie.
Hi Freddie,
I have both these lenses and they worked well for me.
I really like the 35mm lens, it has good image quality and nice out-of-focus. And it gives you a very small light camera.
It is good for seperating the subject from the background with a narrow depth of focus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/2042322658/ (best example I could find for now)
or using available light at night
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/2042323164/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/2377247542
I have taken portraits with it too, that I’m very pleased with. It has a useful field of view, nearly equivalent to the 50mm “standard” lens of film SLRs etc
But I don’t think it gets raves reviews.I started on the 28-135mm, I thought it was fine, never a lens I loved but a very useful telephoto range (for me). With it, I figured out what is important for me (I changed to a tamron 28-75mm 2F as it has larger apertures. I’m delighted with my new lens, its also smaller and lighter and the image quality is very good.
One thing about reviews on the web, is that they can be very variable, perhaps due to manufacturing variability. I believe that my tamron is very sharp and has great colour and so do many others, but there are also many reviewers that don’t like it.
I recently saw on DPreview, someone writing that his 28-135mm gave him image quality equal to what his (very expensive) L lenses do, as you have read that wouldn’t be a majority opinion.
Here is a shot from the 28-135mm http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/355922309/
Most of the reviews on the 28-135mm that I have read put it as average (I guess that is where I put it, but a very usable range) .I hope this helps, just ask if you have any other questions. (I know I’m a bit “one the one hand … but on the other hand …”)
Martin
MartinOC wrote:
Hi Freddie,
I have both these lenses and they worked well for me.
I really like the 35mm lens, it has good image quality and nice out-of-focus. And it gives you a very small light camera.
It is good for seperating the subject from the background with a narrow depth of focus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/2042322658/ (best example I could find for now)
or using available light at night
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/2042323164/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/2377247542
I have taken portraits with it too, that I’m very pleased with. It has a useful field of view, nearly equivalent to the 50mm “standard” lens of film SLRs etc
But I don’t think it gets raves reviews.I started on the 28-135mm, I thought it was fine, never a lens I loved but a very useful telephoto range (for me). With it, I figured out what is important for me (I changed to a tamron 28-75mm 2F as it has larger apertures. I’m delighted with my new lens, its also smaller and lighter and the image quality is very good.
One thing about reviews on the web, is that they can be very variable, perhaps due to manufacturing variability. I believe that my tamron is very sharp and has great colour and so do many others, but there are also many reviewers that don’t like it.
I recently saw on DPreview, someone writing that his 28-135mm gave him image quality equal to what his (very expensive) L lenses do, as you have read that wouldn’t be a majority opinion.
Here is a shot from the 28-135mm http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjoc/355922309/
Most of the reviews on the 28-135mm that I have read put it as average (I guess that is where I put it, but a very usable range) .I hope this helps, just ask if you have any other questions. (I know I’m a bit “one the one hand … but on the other hand …”)
Martin
Thanks for that Martin.
It’s a great help. Nice photos of the monkees!
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