Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM Reviews

Rating
Reviewed by:

eraneran
( Intermediate)

Review Date
January 28, 2010

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.00 of 5,
2 votes

Review 1 of 9

Price Paid: $2000.00 from Ebay

Summary:

to a range example:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eraneran/4265152180/

A macro Sample with the lense:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eraneran/3730598652/

The most tele:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eraneran/3942464094/

The most wide:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eraneran/3945898941/

depth of field:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eraneran/4038281512/

One for sunset (always like it):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eraneran/4015251597/

Strengths:

Great outdoor or well lighted scenery, will cover all my photo needs, from family to profesional sunjects. nice macro. All lenses in one lense

Weaknesses:

Heavy wight(all the lenses in one), heavy in price :) The wife jokes that i need this zoom to prove... ;)

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Rating
Reviewed by:

ores808
( Casual)

Review Date
July 24, 2009

Overall Rating
5 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
4.00 of 5,
2 votes

Review 2 of 9

Price Paid: $2400.00 from ebay

Summary:

Spend the last 3 months touring Europe with my 5D Mark ii with 2 zooms and a prime. I got grew increasingly weary of 1).trying to guess which lens to bring each morning, 2). bringing the wrong lens and missing half of the shots or 3), bringing 2 or 3 lenses and fumbling around trying to change them ..... usually missing the shot in the mean time. In the mean time, my back of 'stuff' broke my back. In the had a lot of money tied up in lenses and i guess i wasn't smart enough or patient enough to "get it right". Returned to the States last month. Bought the Canon 28-300 and left for Tibet. Have spent the last 2 weeks walking around Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Macau and the Pearl River Delta. Every night when I get home, I download the results. Holy Cow, I mean H-O-L-Y COW! How did Canon put all of this in one lens !! I am just amazed. All of my other stuff is going on eBay.

Strengths:

From 'hither' to 'yon', this thing is remarkably flexible and incredibly sharp (a little tricky wide open at 300).

Weaknesses:

NONE (I read a lot of reviews where the biggest complaint was weight. Come of folks, this thing probably doesn't weight any more than that water bottle you lugged around all day. Go the gym.

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Rating
Reviewed by:

roger doger
( Intermediate)

Review Date
September 18, 2008

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
1.50 of 5,
6 votes

Review 3 of 9

Price Paid: $2300.00 from bh photo

Summary:

This lens is heavy but not as bad as all the reviews would make you believe. Image quality seems about as good as 24-105 L and 70=200 L f4.

Nice to only have one lens to worry about.

Strengths:

IQ
Only one lens

Weaknesses:

I guess weight

Similar Products Used:

none

Customer Service:

N/A

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Rating
Reviewed by:

laurent harari
( Professional)

Review Date
August 27, 2008

Overall Rating
2 of 5

Value Rating
2 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
2.00 of 5,
4 votes

Review 4 of 9

Price Paid: $0.00

Summary:

I bought it because where I shoot ( Desert and mountains) I have to be extracareful when I change lens ( dust, sand) are killers. Solutions ?
Get only one lens !!!
Beautiful machine on the paper.
So beautiful that I bought it, but it has a huge problem:
the pull and push structure of the zoom makes it a real dust vacuum
which makes it useless for outdoor photography.
DO the TEST while pushing and pulling bring the lens to the ear and listen
you'll hear the air sucking. this is a vacuum cleaner.
Besides that great

Strengths:

IS very efficient
Sharp
AF fast
can check quality on www.buyphotoarts.com check wildlife Latin america.
But Had todo huge post prod to clean the shots.

Weaknesses:

Its bone structure Push pull too long, too strong , too powerful like a dyson vacuum cleaner.
No dust proofing

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Rating
Reviewed by:

longships
( Expert)

Review Date
July 30, 2006

Overall Rating
3 of 5

Value Rating
3 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.60 of 5,
5 votes

Review 5 of 9

Price Paid: $0.00

Summary:

I sold my 70-200 f2.8L IS USM lens to purchase the 28-300. Although the lens is extremely versatile with its zoom range, it is nowhere near as sharp as the 70-200, even when using a tripod or image stabilisation . I expected a little difference, but the difference is so great, that I after a year of soft sports images, I am contemplating dumping the 28-300 to once again get hold of the brilliant 70-200, which although is less versatile, but gave fantastic results.

Strengths:

Focusing speed, zoom range, fantastic image stabilisation.

Weaknesses:

Push pull zoom, lack of sharpness, price. Not very good for sports photography.

Similar Products Used:

Canon 70-200 f2.8L IS USM

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