rghoag

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Price Paid:  $180.00 from B&H

Summary:
On my 400d this is like walking around with a 45mm lens on a 35, The noise does
not bother me at all and the results have been better than I hoped for.
It's light ,unobtrusive and I have not used my zoom much since I got the 28.
I'm happy with the whole deal.

Similar Products Used:
17-85 canon usm is

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Price Paid:  $160.00 from B&H

Summary:
Prior to purchasing this lens I was using the Canon 20mm 2.8 USM and was generally unpleased with the resulys. The lens was very soft wide open and I felt I should have gotten more out of a lens of that price. I wanted to free up some cash to purchase some other equipment so I sold the 20mm and bought the 28mm 2.8 instead. Aside from not being as wide, I think the performance of this lens is just as good, if not better than the 20mm. It can be a little soft wife open, but not too bad. Very sharp when stopped down. The AF is quite noisy, but about the same as a Nikon 50mm 1.8d I use to have. all in all I'm pleased with this lens and It exceeds any zoom of an equivilent price or more. The lens hood is a piece of crap, but serves its purpose. I would definitley reccommend this lens to anyone on a budget. If you're on a budget it would go along nicely with the 50mm 1.8.

Strengths:
Decently fast at 2.8
Sharp
Nice wide angle on 35mm, Nice close to normal prime on a 1.6 crop body.
Built well

Weaknesses:
Noisy AF
Poor quality lens hood.

Similar Products Used:
Nikon 50mm 1.8D
Canon 20mm 2.8 USM

Customer Service:
N/A

mike13

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
2 votes

Price Paid:  $120.00 from E Bay

Summary:
I am a great fan of (expensive) PRIME lenses having owned and used them often during the 1980’s when I was mad keen, so in a way this is my first experience of a ‘cheapie’ EF lens.

I began collecting Canon FD and now EF EOS just a few months ago and have recently purchased a lovely (MINT) example of Canon’s old 28 F2.8 lens via E Bay for not much cash. This lens comes from the age when lens design wasn’t too concerned that any new lens had to cover 24 to 300 with 1:1 close up etc etc!

In other words it’s old but solid being designed to do ONE job really well rather than a jack of all trades and master of none.

It’s noisy, but not as bad as most Nikon auto focus lenses, it has no real manual focus ring but does have a DoF scale. It’s light and fairly fast at F2.8 and here’s the good news you can USE it wide open and still gain a decent shot – unlike most zooms which are far too soft. No problems with flare – have the matching Canon hood (which feels far too loose when in place) and the image sharpness and colours and contrast are spot on. Not an L lens but at only 10% of the cost it’s well worth trying……

Don’t be put off because it cheap as chips – get a good one and this cute little lens is a cracker!

Strengths:
Excellent image
Use it wide open and still get a decent shot (unlike most 'super' zooms)
Light
Compact
Cheap!

Weaknesses:
Not USM
Manual focus ring too small ( common problem on older EF lenses)

Similar Products Used:
Nikon 28 f2.8 Nikkor Ai-s
Nikon 24 f2.8 Nikor Ai-s
Nikon 28 - 200 AF
Nikon 35 f2 Nikkor Ai-s
Canon 28 - 200 (AVOID)
Canon 28 F3.5 ( lovely) FD
Canon 35 f2.8 FD
Tokina 28 - 20 F2.8 ATX Pro
Simga 28 - 135
Etc
Etc

Customer Service:
Great buy from E Bay - excellent seller, cheap price..