Best Zoom Lenses for Zooms

- the focusing is quite slow - both with sdm and with the screwdriver.

here the lowdown after some extensive k20d (real world studio with people, not charts) testing:

prepare to spend money if you want to put filters on this baby.

the lens i received had a jeckel/hyde personality.

my wife could tell right away.

having used the canon ef-s 17-85mm f/4-5.6 image stabilized usm slr lens for eos digital slr's for about two years now, this is the perfect focal length range for use as a day-to-day walkabout lens

one note, if you are putting this on a canon xsi or similar small body dslr this lens weighs more than the body.

in real life, i have taken the same shots between the two and find myself checking dpp (canon's digital photo professional software) to see which lens took which photo.

i am using this lens on my e-510 digital camera.this lens is superior than the lenses supplied with the kit.the colors are vibrant and the distant objects are also very clear.on a sunny day this is

it makes a nice portrait lens at 70mm, it seems to do a better job with shortening the depth-of-field compared to the 40-150.

although some reports indicate focus is slow in low-light situations, in good light where this lens will usually be used, it's quite fast.

i've had this lens for a couple of weeks now, shooting with it on an e-420.

i bought this lens for my canon eos xti and used it at a family wedding for the first time.

this lens is great for portraits or product shots where you want to focus on one subject and have the foreground & background blurred out.

this is an awesome lens from canon for your dslr - it partners nicely with the kit lens.

i realize that this is by far not the greatest lens, but for the price it is to me, a newcomer to the digital slr world, this lens great, as far as price in concerned.