real life reviews of the 28 - 135 IS

this is another lens that i am considering and was recommended in one of my other posts...just how heavy does it feel and is the IS system the same as that in the 70 - 200 2.8?
i will be carrying this all over europe for two weeks so the wieght and bulk are important but not as important as sharpness...
thanks

The 28-135 IS is a very light-weight and relatively compact lens. It makes a good all-around lens.

As far as the IS goes, it only has one IS mode whereas the 70-200 f/2.8 has two. But it does do a good job with image stabilization.

I use the lens often and I'm very pleased with the images I get from it.

I do own one.

Since it's my only lens, I can't compare. But, I think it's pretty light, Give you a nice "all around" range. It's not that fast though (3.5-5.6).

As for sharpness, it's better than the kit lens that comes with the rebel, but it's not an L lens (neither does the weight or the price). Finaly, if you do mostly outdoor pictures, just stop it down a bit and you'll be in business.

my 2 cents

I've had a 28-135IS for three years the first two of which it spent most of its time mounted on my D60. I picked up a 28-70 2.8L a year or so ago and this lens bumped my 28-135IS. I pulled it out the other day and I couldn't believe how light it felt compared to the 28-70. The 28-135IS is a great all-purpose lens and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. My only concerns with this lens were as follows:

- barrel creep when the lens was pointing down;
- slow (that is once you get used to 2.8), and
- as odd as this may sound, it consistently underexposed on my D60 - a problem I have not had with my 28-70. Of course, EC solved the issue but I found this a pain. I've kept my 28-135IS in the expectation of replacing my D60 (which hopefully will happen soon!)

The 28-135IS is my Walk Around lens. Very light and excellent images. Cannot go wrong with it for the price.

I am new to DSLR or SLR photography just this past year. The reason I say this is because I don't have all the fancy L glass lenses that many of these gentlemen and women have (my perspective is from smaller to bigger). I came from a Kodak point and shoot digital and a Rebel SLR film camera that did not get much play time for cost reasons. After I bought my D60 I needed a better lense then the one that came with my rebel (35-80mm cheapie lense). I went with the 28-135 IS as a all around lense for day trips, family outings and vacations. From my perspective as an amateur this lense was a fairly significant upgrade in weight and size. It is heavy relative to the lense I have but it is certainly manageable to carry on a trip as you describe. I would give this a lense a thumbs up. I've had great success to this point.
One day I will graduate to these bigger L lenses and look back and think, wow that 28-135 was really small and lightweight.

I also have an 28-135 IS USM and I like it a lot - the IS is wonderful. It's not the fastest lens (f/3.5-5.6) but the IS partly compensates for that - you can use much slower shutter times than without it and still get sharp photos.

It's not an "L" lens but it is Canon's best consumer-grade zoom lens.

Can i request some pictures

That and the 50mm 1.8 is all I got, got about 10,000 shots and alot posted here:
http://www.toddburke.n​et/

amazing that there was not one negative review...

i think that answered my question. thanks everyone.
J

Hard to give this lense a bad review - it was my first lense, and its still the one I use 90% of the time.

Its simply a great all-round lense thats hard to beat when price is taken into acount.

Below picture was taken using this lense

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Taken with this lens :

Its a very good lens, and with a excellent value. I'm posting 2 links, to the same picture (almost) taken with the 18-55 at 55 and the 28-135IS at 50, at 1/800 f/8 ISO400, with minutes of difference. Sorry about the different framing. Despite that, you can see the HUGE difference between lenses. Straight from camera images.

http://gfreige.homelin​ux.org/18-55-55-f8.jpg

http://gfreige.homelin​ux.org/28-135-50-f8.jpg

And this is a similar picture taken prevously with the 50/1.8 at f/8. This one is in AdobeRGB colorpace and using a wider framing.

http://gfreige.homelin​ux.org/50-f8.jpg

Guillermo:

I'm having trouble getting your links to work. I'd love to see those pictures.