28-135mm IS USM OR 28-105 USM

[blackandwhite]

Read a lot of reviews on 28-105mm, 28-135mm IS and 24-85mm before I decided on 28-105mm. Overall, it depends on your personal preference, if you are tight on budget (just like me) and prefer a better optical performance, get the 28-105. If you shoot most of the time by hand-helding and do a lot of potraiture, 28-135mm is the best bet. Else, you should go for 24-85mm if you are doing lanscaping, but heard that the optics performance is weaker than the other two.

 

[jimbok]

Personally I feel that 28 is too long for taking wide angle shots, so if you like to take landscape these are not the lens for you. I have the 28-135 IS, bought 2nd hand from a CSer here, the IS is great for indoor with low light if you are not confident to shoot at a low shutter speed. But 28-135 IS is a NONO for taking sports or fast moving objects with IS on.

Btw, does Canon charge anything for general servicing of lens that's out of warranty? Sorry OT

 

[Stoppable]

Actually Canon has two 28-105 USM lenses. One is f3.5-4.5 the other f4-5.6. I am considering between these 2. The f3.5 cost like $200 more than the f4. It can't be $200 for that half stop, right. wonder if the f3.5 one is sharper or made of different materials.

 

[DEADMETAL]

Actually Canon has two 28-105 USM lenses. One is f3.5-4.5 the other f4-5.6. I am considering between these 2. The f3.5 cost like $200 more than the f4. It can't be $200 for that half stop, right. wonder if the f3.5 one is sharper or made of different materials.

I'm currently using the 28-105 f3.5 to f4.5. Excellent lens I should say. Sad to say that 28mm is too long. Even 24mm is too long if you are using a 1.6 FOVCF dSLR

 

[n0d3]

Actually Canon has two 28-105 USM lenses. One is f3.5-4.5 the other f4-5.6. I am considering between these 2. The f3.5 cost like $200 more than the f4. It can't be $200 for that half stop, right. wonder if the f3.5 one is sharper or made of different materials.

Only the 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 has TRUE ring-type USM with full time manual focusing. And the image quality is defintely better than the rest of Canon's 28-105mms.

 

[blackandwhite]

Dont get the 28-105mm f/4-5.6..... it is a totally different story as compare to the counterpart. u can get a mark I version of f/3.5-4.5, 2nd hand at a good price. difference is only the 5 blades system and age, which gives you, not so round out of focus ring. Mark II version has 7 blades if i am not mistaken.

 

[DEADMETAL]

Dont get the 28-105mm f/4-5.6..... it is a totally different story as compare to the counterpart. u can get a mark I version of f/3.5-4.5, 2nd hand at a good price. difference is only the 5 blades system and age, which gives you, not so round out of focus ring. Mark II version has 7 blades if i am not mistaken.

I think mine is a Mark I and it have 7 blade.

 

[honda]

I had the 28-105/3.5-4.5 usm mk2. I was very happy until i got the sigma 18-50/2.8. Then i sold it off and sold my 24/2.8 and sold my 50/1.8 also.
http://singaporephoto.blogspot.com

 

[blackandwhite]

I think mine is a Mark I and it have 7 blade.

Mark II is definitely 7 blades version but there are 2 kinds for Mark I depends on the manufacturing window. With regards to how to identify 5 or 7 blades, you can refer to the following (flower icon vs. wording for MACRO):

http://photonotes.org/cgi-bin/lens-specs.pl?lens1=EF+28-105mm+f3.5-4.5+USM