Canon EF 28-135 F3.5-5.6 IS USM

[Silvrr]

This was my first lens purchase. It gets a bad stigma since it has become one of the "kit" lenses but it can produce some great images. The range is pretty good, although I often found myself wanting more on the wide end since I shoot with a crop body. The long end is very useful. Its marketed as a "macro" lens since it has a better than normal magnification and minimum focusing distance. The macro side of things works well for flowers and other small stuff but cannont create the images from a true 1:1 macro. Anyway on to the pics.

I really liked the range of this lens for product photography. Its wide enough to do stuff in doors in a smaller room. I always was happy with the shaprness from this lens while doing my products shots.



A shot using the "macro" mode. The little guys are ~3/8" across. All manual focus while doing this. You just extend the barrel fully and roll the focus ring to macro and then move the camera to focus.


Its a great all around lens and I used it for just about everything when I had it. The edges of the bolts on the engine case are sharp at 100% on this shot. It was taken wide open (f5.6 at 112 mm)


I used this lens for drag racing also. The USM is fast enough to keep the cars in focus while they launch and I zoom out.


Your proably wondering why I got rid of it. I miss this lens actually but I always wanted more on the wide end. Landscapes and the like are not this lenses friend on a crop body. Its equivelent to a 45 mm lens on a full frame camera, which isn't very wide.

In order to get a shot like this you have to be pretty far away. Also, the bottom of the building is cut off quite a bit. I think I am standing across the street and backing up to the next building to get this shot.

[Foques]

like I was always saying, its not the camera, its the photographer.

[Silvrr]

In a moment of great boredom I arranged the majority of my flick by lens.

Click Here and choose the "shot with" and from there you can choose a lens.

[Silvrr]

[runner450]

you know, I've gotten some pretty good shots out of this, but want to dump it towards a 24-70mm for my portraiture

[Silvrr]

Originally Posted by runner450

you know, I've gotten some pretty good shots out of this, but want to dump it towards a 24-70mm for my portraiture

The 4mm on the long end, especially on a crop body, actually is pretty noticable I think. I don't ever miss the extra 60mm or IS either. It is quite a bit heavier though. Optically the 24-70 is quite a bit better, however, the 28-135 is no slouch in the right conditions.