( 19 reviews )
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Posted: Jun 5 2009
This lens is *beautiful*. The quality of shots taken vs the lens that shipped with my camera (even though its a totally different lens) is huge. Very impressed.
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Posted: Apr 19 2009
i have had this lens for well over a year since i bought it from here. i still use it about 70% of the time along with my 85mm f1.8 and 135mm f2. its a great length for indoors and the 1.8 aperture helps with indoor shutter speeds. has a short minimum focus distance, lets you take close ups of food and small objects. few cons i can think of are the edge sharpness is a little soft and it tends to back focus sometimes.
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Posted: Mar 24 2009
The Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 lens focuses quickly and accurately, and can produce nice pictures as long as you either stop it down or keep your subjects away from the edges of the frame. The center of the frame is sharp, but even with an APS-C (cropped frame) sensor, the edges are quite soft at f/1.8 and remain noticeably softer than the center no matter how far you stop it down. The lens also shows strong chromatic aberration around high-contrast edges; for example, one shot I took of the street outside my house on a sunny day had very noticeable purple fringing around the highlights on parked cars. Stopping down does not reduce the CA significantly, but I have not noticed it to be a problem on indoor shots as long as sunny windows and unshaded lamps are kept out of the frame. My goal in purchasing this lens was to improve my indoor sports (mostly martial arts) photography, and I think it will do a good job at that. But I can't give more than three stars to a lens with the flaws that this one has. Canon lenses, especially primes, are usually better than this.
