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Superb lens. Highly recommended!
The 3.5-4.5 max aperture is fantastic for such a reasonably priced Canon USM lens. The AF is very quick and silent. I cannot understand why a reviewer thought it was slow.
The images are very sharp, especially from f5.6, however, I would not call wide open images "soft".
The colour is very natural and accurate. I know there is a trend for over-saturation now, but I prefer to add saturation as the situation requires in PS.
This is great lens. I have compared it with the 28-135 IS USM, which I really didn't like and the 24-85 USM which should have been as good, but was not (a lot of distortion and zoom creep on the lens). For me, this was the best investment I made on my Canon kit. Strengths:
Sharp! Esp. f5.6 - f11
Natural colour rendtion
Fast max aperture and AF
Build quality (metal mount, solid casing)
Size (actually very small - even when compared to EF-S lenses)
58mm thread
MF override
Internal focusing Weaknesses:
The only MINOR MINOR weakness is that the zoom actually zooms the front element out, but for this price that is really not an issue. It's not really a macro lens, so it doesn't matter.
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