Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens for Canon DSLR Cameras
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Customer Review: slightly dis appointed
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading some very good reviews of this lens, I was very diaappointed to see dust inside the lens, including a fairly large spot, within days after getting it. The distortion around the edge was quite noticeable. With a lens costing this much and comparison to "L" lens, I never expected this. Canon needs to improve its quality control. I, too, believe that a lens hood should have been included at this price.Customer Review: I sold mine after one shoot, chromatic aberation the worst of all my lenses!
Summary: 1 Stars
I wanted so badly to love this lens. True, it delivers performance that is pretty darned good (although not as nice as I had hoped) but the chromatic aberration is just unacceptable. Heck, shooting a brides dress in low contrast shade with a lens hood and no filters should not create bright, heavy bands of cyan, magenta and yellow. See the photo I added at the top for a typical example.Chromatic aberration was what kept me away from digital photography for so many years and this is the only lens I have that is this bad.
True, the discoloration can be removed in photoshop. You can do anything in photoshop, does that mean you want to? Personally, it took me over a day to remove the aberrations in 500 photos from one wedding shoot. Unfortunately the adobe lightroom chromatic aberration removal tool did not work for the level of distortion this lens has, forcing me to use photoshops saturation levels adjustment with masking.
Don't believe the hype, this is not an "L" lens in build or performance. Take your $1000 elsewhere...