Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras by Canon
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Digital camera reviews of Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
Digital camera Review: 28mm
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this lens. I'm a professional photographer, and during photoshoots I never take it off my camera.
the 28 on a full frame sensor is amazing.
it works great, i love it.
Digital camera Review: A frustrating lens that should have been great
Summary: 2 Stars
The Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 lens focuses quickly and accurately, and can produce nice pictures as long as you keep your subjects away from the edges of the frame. The center is sharp, but even on an APS-C (cropped frame) camera such as a Digital Rebel or 50D, the edges are quite soft at f/1.8 and remain noticeably soft no matter how far you stop it down. On a full-frame camera such as the 5D Mark II, the edges are unspeakably bad. The lens also shows strong chromatic aberrations and heavy purple fringing around specular highlights. Stopping down does not reduce these effects significantly, but it is usually not a problem on indoor shots as long as sunny windows and unshaded lamps (including flourescent tubes) are kept out of the frame.
My goal in purchasing this lens was to improve my indoor martial arts photography, but its optical defects were so frustrating that I found myself taking any excuse not to use it. I simply couldn't trust it to produce usable images. I ended up selling it. Now when I need a fast lens in about this focal length, I usually reach for the less-expensive but optically superior Canon EF 35mm f/2 Wide Angle Lens. The 35mm f/2 does not have USM, so it does not focus quite as quickly or silently as the 28mm f/1.8, but it produces good pictures without weird color artifacts.
The EF 28mm f/1.8 USM is the worst prime SLR lens in Canon's product line as far as I know. It is the only such lens that I recommend avoiding.
Digital camera Review: A good buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I like this lens a lot. I use it most f the time when I run around with my camera and for portraits of more than one person. Also if I shoot in a small space this lens gives me enough room to shoot the portrait where the 50mm would cut of things. I am very pleased with the buy and would recommend this product to anybody who wants to spend this kind of money.Digital camera Review: A great wide angle lens for your Canon EOS Rebel
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a Canon EOS Rebel XT, and I have a number of lenses for it, but I use my 28mm f/1.8 mostly for low light conditions! It works great in low light without flash, as long as there is no quick movement! I recently attended a banquet and went around the room and took candid shots of everyone, without flash, and they all turned out great. I took a group shot of everyone and had to stitch the two shots together, and even that worked fairly well. I recommend this lens highly, but you can expect a shallow depth of field in low light, so your focus has to be right on.Digital camera Review: A very useful lens on an APS-C body
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this lens recently for use on my 7D. My purposes were indoor youth basketball and indoor candids - i.e. fairly close range, low-light situations.
I also had the Canon 50mm f/1.4 and the 100mm f2.0, but I found that the 50mm was too long in certain situations, and the 100mm was really for a different purpose altogether. This lens formed the endpoint of a useful progression of fast primes: 100mm/50mm/28mm, to cover me in pretty much any low-light situation.
I had read some of the reviews here and on other sites about this lens' shortcomings, particularly with respect to CA. I have to say, however, that in my use of the lens, on my camera, these shortcomings have not been an issue. This lens has proved very useful in getting some great images in youth basketball. These are not big-league events, so I can position myself directly under the basket, and get compelling images of layups, rebounds, etc. The 50mm was simply too long to do this well, and the foreshortening provided by the focal length adds to the impact of the shot.
The lens is sharp, but having said that, sharpness of the type measured in ISO 12233 charts is not relevent to me. Even at the 1/200 to 1/400 shutter speeds I am able to get using this lens, my subjects move a few millimeters, and this is enough to prevent the images from being truly sharp. Speed is the primary element I need to create sharp images, and this lens is faster anything I can put on the camera in its focal length range for less than $1500. It also autofocuses very well.
The lens also excels at indoor candids. It seems to have just the right focal length for this use, and I have been very happy with these images also.
I think anyone purchasing the lens for uses similar to mine will be quite pleased with its performance, as I have been. The only downside for me was cost...I wouldn't have liked it any less had it cost maybe $300 instead of $500. Canon makes a $100 f1.8 50mm, why not a less expenive 28-or-so-mm also?