Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens for Canon DSLR Cameras
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens for Canon DSLR Cameras
Customer Review: Big and heavy ... but the best you can get for cropped sensors
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using this lens for about 6 months on 40D in a variety of conditions. Fairly dusty hikes and light rain. This lens has not failed to impress me. Sharp and fast. And I'm quite spoiled: I've sold 17-85 as it did disappoint me a few times in several respects and I own some of the sharpest primes. Also it has virtually no chromatic aberrations or distortion.
The only significant drawback of it is the size/weight. It's just too big for casual photography. It does inevitably attract more attention than smaller and more compact zooms. Funnily most people expect it to be some sort of 20x superzoom and can't believe that it's just about 3x zoom. Also it's long length makes it a bit problematic to use with flash. When extended it creates a large shadow on the picture.
It is also rather expensive ... but once you put it to some use you'll not regret the money.
Finally I'd be certainly happier if Canon has included the hood. A $2 piece of plastic that they charge $30-40 when bought separately.
Customer Review: AWESOME ALL-AROUND LENS
Summary: 5 Stars
I waited a long time to finally buy this lens b/c of the price. It is worth EVERY penny and my only regret is that it did not buy it sooner. Finally, I can get more natural looking pictures because I don't have to use my flash in many indoor situations thanks to the wider aperature (f/2.8). After a trip to Disney where I took 2 lenses to the park (17-85 f/4-5.6 and 50 f/1.4) so that I could get both my wide angle pictures during the day and really cool night pictures of the castle, I realized how silly it was that I didn't just have one great lens that I was happy to have on my camera all of the time. Now the only time I take this off my camera is for sporting events when I need my 70-200 f/2.8. Yes, I sometimes wish it could zoom closer than 55 mm but I wouldn't give up my wide 17 mm range (on a 1.6 crop camera) for anything. I love being able to get the group shots and all of the scene that others cannot at 24 mm. I highly recommend this lens for everyday use and beautiful, natural looking low-light photography!Customer Review: Great quality and speed
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me start by saying this lens focuses quickly and accurately and the image stabilization works extremely well. Pictures are sharp and contrast is beautiful.
To answer the criticisms of this lens that I have seen,
1. Do you actually own it?
2. It's not an "L" series lens and has never been advertised as such. Thus, it is not weather sealed. Then again, none of the EF-S cameras are weather sealed either.
3. This is the fastest, sharpest, and most hand holdable of the f2.8 lenses in canon's lineup right now. If you look at the results on Photozone.com, the 17-55 IS F2.8 is sharper than canon's famous EF 24-70 F2.8L.
4. EF-S should be around long enough for you to take some great pictures with this lens. If you're not satisfied with 1.6X crop factor you can always sell your lens on E-Bay for almost the price you paid for it.
In conclusion, this is the best all around lens for the EF-S mount canon cameras available at this time. Go get it and start taking pictures.
Customer Review: awesome lens
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this lens. A lot of my friends who have looked at the pictures also agree that it takes great photos. The image stabilization is a really nice feature, it lets you just walk and click, making it super easy to take pictures of people/things while you walk. I found myself just holding my finger over the shoot button after a while, because it was such a joy to take pictures with this thing.
I don't know anyone who hasn't liked this lens. For someone who is looking to buy their first serious lens, this a a pretty good selection, I think. It takes great portraits, has fairly wide angle so you can capture scenes, and the image stabilization is cool especially the more you start playing with f-stops and film speeds. You can get a lot of cool blur effects without much work, just like magic.
It also took a great night picture for me, that I've become really proud of. I can't say enough good things about this lens.
FYI, my camera body is a Canon EOS 400D.
Customer Review: Almost the perfect lens for a Canon crop sensor
Summary: 5 Stars
This lens already has countless reviews, so I wont waste your time repeating what you've already read.
In short, this is the best lens currently available for a Canon crop sensor camera body. I recently spent a week using a 24-105/4L and a 35/1.4L and I couldn't be happier coming back to my 17-55/2.8.
It's fast, the images it produces are as crisp as either of those two L lenses, and it has far less CA than the 35L.
All in all, the only ding I'd give this lens is that it has a near L lens price without the L lens build quality. The zoom action on the 24-105 felt SOLID. It stayed where you put it. The 17-55 has a little wiggle, has wimpy resistance, and doesn't have even resistance throughout the range. The 17-55 also doesn't have the weather sealing of an L lens, which is why I had to forgo it for a week for the other lenses. Very happy to be back.
If Canon ever makes an L version of this lens, I'd be first in line to pre-order it.