28-135 IS Canon lens Question

[Tobiko]

I was thinking about getting this lens cause it looks great, i just have one question. Does this work on the digital rebel and a canon eos 2000? I have conflicting sources some saying it only works on the d10 and d20. Is this true?

[robertwgross]

I was thinking about getting this lens cause it looks great, i just have one question. Does this work on the digital rebel and a canon eos 2000? I have conflicting sources some saying it only works on the d10 and d20. Is this true?

Your conflicting sources are full of beans! Nor is there any such d10 or d20.

Canon does have models 10D and 20D.

Any EF lens will work on any Canon EOS camera body, whether film or digital.

EF-S lenses are special, and there are only a couple of digital bodies where they will fit.

---Bob Gross---

[Cadwell]

That lens will work fine on both those bodies.

[kb244]

The 28-135 USM IS , was the first lens I purchased for my rebel right after I had the kit lens. Works very well with the Digital Rebel. If you dont already have a BG-E1 battery grip for your rebel, you may wish to consider one when getting that 28-135 USM IS, despite the focal range not being that wide, it is about as heavy as a longer telephoto lens. The battery grip will add a little more weight in the back, helping you hold the camera more steadily.

[kb244]

EF-S (only four right now to my knowledge, the 18-55 Kit lens, 17-85 USM IS, 10-22 USM, and the USM version of the 18-55 which is only available in japan) will at this point of time work with the Digital Rebel and the 20D. All other Canon Digital EOS (And Film EOS) Bodies will work with the Canon EF lines of lens. This is basically to say the DRebel and 20D works with all the EF lens but also have a couple made specifically for those models.

The main difference is not only in how the mount is slightly different (it goes in a lil further than the EF do), but rather the way the glass is. The EF-S lens are made with the 1.6x crop factor in mind, while the focal length is still measured in a way that would be on normal 35mm film cameras. The idea is that the glass is cut down in size so that the ammount of coverage from the back element of the lens, only covers the actual sensor area of the DRebel and 20D. Where as the EF lens you will not be using the extra glass as the sensor is not large enough to cover the area the EF lens are intended for thus the 1.6x crop.

In the end, while I would love to have a 10-22 lens on my Drebel ( 16-35 equiv ). The fact that its a EF-S makes me want it less, because the glass has been cut to only cover that sensor range. This basically means If I ever have hopes of either going back to film, or upgrading to a more professional camera, I cannot use the lens I intended as an investment, and at this point of time, I feel that canon is making the EF-S series of lens intended for Entry level and high end Digital SLR, but no telling what models will come out with EF-S support. So if you have a collection of EF-S, you are pretty much stuck in that general market that canon intended the EF-S for.

[Cadwell]

Your conflicting sources are full of beans!
---Bob Gross---

Just a quick cultural question, Bob. Over this side of the pond "full of beans" would mean "has lots of energy". Is this one of those phrases that has a different meaning in the US?

[robertwgross]

Just a quick cultural question, Bob. Over this side of the pond "full of beans" would mean "has lots of energy". Is this one of those phrases that has a different meaning in the US?

Ahh, yes. On this side of the cultural pond, "full of beans" means that someone is discharging some undesirable gas.

---Bob Gross---

[Cadwell]

Ahh, yes. On this side of the cultural pond, "full of beans" means that someone is discharging some undesirable gas.

---Bob Gross---


Right, thanks for that info!

* note to self: Don't describe your American colleagues as "full of beans" * :lol:

It's amazing how many little phrases there are which have completely different meanings from one side of the pond to the other.

[johneo]

Right, thanks for that info!

* note to self: Don't describe your American colleagues as "full of beans" * :lol:

It's amazing how many little phrases there are which have completely different meanings from one side of the pond to the other.

Just to make it a little more confusing ... "full of beans" has dual meaning here in the states and you are both correct but it has more to do with the context of that phrase in a sentance.

Example ... as Bob said, that the person telling the tale about those lenses was spewing unwanted gas in his description.
By the same means, I recently described one of my pups as being full of beans because she is very active and gets into everything. So much so they named her "Beans" which is short for Vanilla Beanie Baby and/or her attitude.

http://www.vikinglabs.com/beans