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: Fabulous Lens!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just purchased this lens for a weekend shopping trip to Chicago to put on my T1i. I wanted something light with a wide enough view and capable of low-light performance. I was not disappointed. The clarity on this lens is outstanding, as well as its ability to take great night shots. It is very fast and the lack of IS is not a factor at all. It is my new "indoor lens", it is a great performer in this price range. Very happy with the build quality, it is very quiet with the USM and focuses rather quickly. I found it to be pretty sharp wide-open, as well as stopped down. I honestly feel you cannot go wrong if you are looking for a wider prime in this price range.Digital camera Review: Fantastic lens
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a G9 and S90 user that decided it was time to step up to the major leagues, so I decided on the Canon 60D. Of the three cameras with the same 18.1 megapixel sensor, the 60D had the most appeal because it didn't feel quite like a toy (as the t2i did), it has an articulated screen for video shooting, and it is enough below a 7D in price that you can afford a nice lens if you were considering the 7D w/kit.
And that's where this beauty came in. I looked at the $100 Canon f/1.8 50mm, the 50mm f/1.4, the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 and this one. My primary use for this setup is to take pictures of the parties that I throw in a club setting at night and lots of indoor candids.
I settled on this lens because it best fulfilled the above reasons, but also because it did not have any of the focusing issues gamble involved in the Sigma 30mm AND because unlike all of the other 50mm lenses I was considering, this comes closest to the traditional 50mm prime view on the 1.6x crop APS-C sensor that the 60D has.
Let me just tell you that I am absolutely blown away by the 60D/Canon 28mm f/1.8 combo. My excitement should probably be tempered a bit because I am stepping up from P&S realm to a dSLR with a nice lens, but still. I uploaded three shots to the user section of a nighttime walk around my block I did after a nice rain here in LA, shooting at f/2.8 in pretty much darkness with no flash and no IS and the results were just stunning.
I also took some candid portrait shots of a friend who paid me a visit after having a few drinks and it really captures the mood/moments so well. It's so freeing to be able to shoot like this indoors. I have seen none of the "softness" reported by other users, except at f/1.8 where I believe it is narrow DOF on this lens. I stopped up to f/2.8 while outside and saw some incredible sharpness on pictures focused at infinity. Did some some slight CA in high contrast area (cluster of street lamps behind some trees) but nothing that bothered me and again, if I am going to do a ton of outdoor daytime shooting, I'll probably get another lens down the road.
I also did a quick experiment shooting video and the large, smooth focus ring makes it very possible to manually adjust focus on a slow-moving subject (like a person moving around a room) once you have an innate feel for which direction you correct if they subject moves in front or behind the focus area. It adds a nice creative dimension to go out of focus and snap back in for a second -- that nice cinematic, hand-held aesthetic -- and the detail is just razor sharp, again, even in low light. Really looking forward to messing around more with the video side of things and this lens.
All in all, very very happy. It was worth stepping down to the 60D so I could afford this lens. I finally feel like the gear is no longer an excuse at all, it's just whether or not I have the eye and get the right shot, which is how it should be.
Digital camera Review: Fast lens for 1.6x SLR cameras
Summary: 4 Stars
This lens is almost a perfect 50mm equivalent for my 1.6x SLR. The large aperture is incredibly fast and allows great indoor shooting in low light. Beware that using a UV Haze Filter causes glare across the lens. It's almost unusable with the filter on.Digital camera Review: Fast, Fast, Fast
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this for a trip to Ireland assuming that I would encounter a lot of places where I could not use a flash indoors, like churches and museums. I was right. Its about as good as you can get in low light situations without spending a mint. Very happy with this purchase.Digital camera Review: Get a 50 mm f/1.4 instead (and stand back further!)
Summary: 2 Stars
This lens is not so good. It is quite soft even stopped down to f/2.8, 3.2 or even f/4.0. The color rendition and white balance are also off, with and without flash. I think the sample photos someone else posted are quite telling, they are soft and dull though actually quite a bit better than what I was able to achieve indoors. Outdoors it is probably fine, but for me, I want a fast prime for shooting indoors without a flash. There aren't a lot of great options in this focal range (the Sigma 30 mm has serious focusing problems--I tried it out; and the Canon L series primes are heavy and very expensive, though certainly intriguing). I have the 50 mm f/1.4 and, man, is that an awesome lens. I'm not sure why this one is more expensive, but I would avoid it. I'd even suggest trying the Sigma before this one, but be prepared to send it back a few times to get a "good copy". If you have your heart set on this one, you can have mine--I'm sending it back to Amazon tomorrow for a refund.