Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Digital SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLR Cameras
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Digital SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLR Cameras
Customer Review: Not Great but not awful, This CAN come in handy.
Summary: 3 Stars
I love macro photography and this is the only lens I can actually use up close without it blurring so right there that is essential. The quality on the other hand, isn't the best in my opinion.. I don't know what it is but I have alot of trouble getting a good crisp image compared to my 2 other lenses. You can view my skull image submissions to see what I'm dealing with. Again, this COULD be me.. Sometimes I do have regrets spending so much money, I don't think it's worth the price.. There are some amazing lenses for 400.00 these days and this is not one of them.
Decent lens, not awful, not great.
Customer Review: Why bother with this lens?
Summary: 2 Stars
I love Canon products and I have had a complete Canon system for about 10 years. I love everything Canon does. However I do not understand Canon's reasoning behind producing this lens.
The reason for the EF-S lenses is offering wider angle by getting the rear elements of a lens closer to the "film" plane. They cannot do this on film and full frame sensor cameras because the mirror is larger and would hit the rear elements of an EF-S lens.
They have indicated, however, that by 35 mm that advantage is gone. Why then do they produce a 60 mm Macro lens when they already have their macro requirements covered with they current three lenses? I would guess that the short back focus makes the lens cheaper; but this lens is only $60 short of the excellent 100 f2.8 USM Macro.
As I said, if for $60 I can get a lens that has 40 mm more reach (66 in 1.6crop cameras; useful in macro photography) and that works on ALL CANON CAMERAS, I'm not going to be thinking about this lens at all.
Granted, you might not be thinking of buying a FF camera anytime soon, but Canon has indicated that eventually they will have FF on all their DSLR's, so why bother with this lens?
The 17-85 or 10-22 are very reasonable offerings for the EF-S lineup, but the 60mm macro doesn't make any sense to me.
my $0.02