Highly portable wide-angle lens with a good price-to-performance ratio. Its light weight of 6.5 oz. (185g) makes it ideal as your standard wide-angle lens. The high-precision aspherical lens minimizes distortion and other aberrations for sharp and high-contrast images.
4Highly portable wide-angle lens
The weight of 6.5 oz. (185g) makes it an ideal standard wide-angle lens
High-precision aspherical lens minimizes distortion and other aberrations for sharp and high-contrast images
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I was happy with this lens when I first used it. It is built very well, without the familiar plastic feel. I like how the focal ring doesn't activate when it is placed into AF mode to prevent it from breaking. I also think the distance scale is helpful and stylish. My only complaint with the lens is the loud auto-focusing noise. But overall, this lens is a fantastic buy for what it's worth.
Pros: sharp focus, pretty fast af, good build quality
I purchased this lens 10 months ago. I have since used it in san francisco, monterey, sacramento, lake tahoe, and other places. I have to say that i am completely satisfied with my copy of this lens. The picture quality is not as nice as my ef 50/1.4 but it is nice. This lens is sharp wide open, the colors are well balanced and has pretty good contrast. The focus is accurate and moderately fast. To some it up in one sentence, Better picture and faster aperture than standard EF and EF-S zoom lenses. The quality is also pretty good. This is not the same cheap plastic feeling as the 50 f/1.8. It has a metal mount, a solid feel, like it is not a toy, and the manual focus is smooth and has a wide range so you can really get a finely tuned focus.
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