My 10D FINALLY came yesterday!!

[Boosting1Bar]

After a week of hassling around with different companies and cancelling and ordering from other places and all kinds of other hassles, it FINALLY came yesterday evening around 5:30PM! Unfortunately it came just as the movers were arriving to move me, so it's basically been sitting around untouched for almost a day until just a little while ago.

My first impression....SWWWEEEEEEEEEEEETTTT!! I LOVE it! I got the 28-135 USM IS and WOW is the IS awesome. I'm really glad I ended up getting it. Gotta eat now, was just so excited I had to tell someone and I don't know anyone here in the new place so you guys have to listen! Here is one of the first shots out of it, my little sister's cat...
http://www.boosting1bar.com/canon/cat01.jpg

If you look in that same directory there is a very larger version of the same pic.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Conrats!

Your going to love this fine peice of machinery! :)

[Liang]

Very nice shot!

I wish to buy 28-135 USM IS too.

But I heard from some reviews it is soft on wide open and
the auto focus is slow in low light.

What is your advice?

[Boosting1Bar]

Very nice shot!

I wish to buy 28-135 USM IS too.

But I heard from some reviews it is soft on wide open and
the auto focus is slow in low light.

What is your advice?

Well I honestly haven't gotten to use it a whole lot yet, but thus far I am very very impressed with it. I don't think the AF is slow in low light, the shot above of the cat was taken with only one lamp on and a 1 second shutter speed handheld. I'll come back to this thread and post a more detailed opinion once I have time to use it a bit more this week.

[sGu]

Congrats and welcome to 10D owner's club :D !!!

[blinking8s]

i went to the store and tried the 28-135 IS and hated it...just not my cup of tea i guess, indoors i didnt get anything at distance in sharp..and the AF was slow as hell

[MarkH]

Very nice shot!

I wish to buy 28-135 USM IS too.

But I heard from some reviews it is soft on wide open and
the auto focus is slow in low light.

What is your advice?

I have used that lens for a year now and I really like it. With ring-type USM the focus is fast and the IS is great. I don't find it soff, but what are we comparing it to?

In low light the AF will be slower on any lens with a small aperture, if you really want a lens with faster AF in low light and better sharpness wide open then there are more suitable lenses available.

I would suggest the 24-70 f2.8L and the 70-200 f2.8L IS lenses, probably Canon's 2 best zooms. Read the reviews, they are sharp wide open, fast AF, good brightness and contrast, tack sharp generally.

The only reason I got the 28-135 IS was because I had blown my budget buying my 10D and couldn't stretch the credit card further to get better lenses. For really sharp pictures at wide apertures I have the really cheap 50mm f1.8 lens. Sometimes it can be necessary to compromise on performance for the sake of being able to afford the gear.

[photamat]

i went to the store and tried the 28-135 IS and hated it...just not my cup of tea i guess, indoors i didnt get anything at distance in sharp..and the AF was slow as hell

I am a beginning photographer graduating from G3. I found the 28-135 IS sharp enough for my eyes. I have to agree the focus is not as fast as my sigma but I got used to it after a while and don't regret buying the lens. Also this translates to a very good usable range to have it on the camera when outside. I don't have an iota of regret over this lens for the price I spent for it.

[kiwimichael]

I love my 28-135. It was the first lens I purchesd for my EOS3 4-5 years ago. I was immediately impressed by the quality it produced. Since then I have purchased the 70-200Lf4 which is also superb. More recently I added the 17-40Lf4 to the collection in anticipation of my 10D arriving. Since receiving the 10D I've used the 17-40 more frequently, nonetheless I'm sure that you can imagine my horror when I picked up my 28-135 while on vacation and discovering that there was very noticable fungus growth on the internal lenses :cry:
I resisted the temptation to dismantle the lense and it is now at Canon who I hope can repair it - read some scary stories about how fungus can eat the coatings. :cry:

Michael