Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13195 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 6469A014AA
• Released on: 2003-08-14
• Dimensions: .83 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
This lightweight, compact standard zoom lens is practically identical to the EF28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM optically and mechanically, but it has a leather toned exterior finish for a higher quality look. It focuses to 0.5m throughout the zoom range using inner focusing. Inner focusing and the Ring USM focusing motor provide silent, high-speed focusing. It has full time manual focus, which allows manual focusing without leaving the AF mode. The non-rotating front ring, which fascinates use of accessories, and other advanced specifications are carried over from the original EF28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM.

Box Contains

• 1x Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM Zoom Lens

Customer Reviews

Superb all-round lens
This lens is from Canon's consumer range and it's designed to be a good all rounder. It succeeds superbly.

The lens is a nice weight, it feels substantial and well built. A full time manual focus ring is on board as well as a distance scale. The focus and zoom rings are smooth and the whole package feels right.

Now down to the nitty gritty - image quality. The image quality is simply superb but it does need a little consideration to get the best from it and I'll explain how. At the extreme ends of the focal length the lens is soft, more so at the 28mm end. BUT if the lens is stopped down to anything around F10 and above the image sharpness is unbelievable. Now I realise this isn't possible in every situation but images will be more than acceptable at any f-stop but when they are stopped down they are utterly pin sharp.

As you work through the middle range of the focal length say 45 - 90 the lens is very sharp, stopping it down to F8 and above just enhaces this, until going a little soft at the maximum focal length again.

If you're sticking this lens on a DSLR with a cropped sensor remember that you'll get a focal length range of 45mm to 170mm so if you're looking to this lens to give you semi-wide angle at the bottom end it won't really do it. What you do get is a very usable range of focal lengths and an excellent all-day lens for under £200. The lens also focuses all the way down to 50cm - a nice little bonus in my book and it allows some excellent macro shots.

The lens is very, very good value. For under £200 you get superb image quality, good build, full time manual focus, smooth operation and all day, all situation usability.

It takes 58mm filters.

Superb buy.

Cheap USM lens - brilliant.
This is the first USM lens i have owned for my Canon EOS 400D. Before i bought it i was a bit dubious as to how much the USM would add, but now all of my non-USM (all of them damn it) lenses seem slow and laboured when auto-focusing. Plus, all the focusing is internal (same with all USMs) so never gets longer when focusing (I didn't realise this until bought it... maybe that's just me). It does make it slightly heavier but if you want a light camera you probably shouldn't have an SLR anyway...
As for the actual lens, great addition to kit. I have substituted the kit lens (18-55mm) for this one as it is a reasonable wide-angle (enough for everyday use and small crowds) and much better zoom. Plus can stop it up to f3.5 rather than 4.5 which so far has made a massive difference, esp mid range.
Downsides wise - ok 28mm isn't really wide-angle. But would still rather use this than kit lens as is so much sharper image quality, esp when stopped down to f10 etc.
The one niggley thing that got to me was small but annoying. If lens cap and hood are on, you have to take cap off to get hood off... but that's just pedantic really...
Overall, if you can find it for around £100 from auction sites maybe, it is well worth it!

Agree with previous reviewer!!
Yep, exactly what he said about quality. Stop it down and it's ultra-sharp. Bit of an odd-ball focal length on a crop body as a walk-round lens, but I find it brilliant for candid work and even close-ups of plants, flowers etc. Produces very nice bokeh too.
I like the build quality - very solid. I gave this one to the mrs when I got my 70-200 and she loves it as well. I think I want it back now!!!