Okay, now this is a handy travel lens. The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens offers not only a bit of wide angle photo capabilities, but also a pretty hefty telephoto range. The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens is also fairly affordable, which makes it a good choice for new photographers.
The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens comes standard with the powerful ring type USM (Ultrasonic Motor) drive which enables you to have lightning fast focusing, with a silent motor so you don’t scare away the wildlife. It also helps to be able to focus quickly and accurately when you don’t think conditions will permit.
No distance scale is present on the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens.
The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens is an EF mount which means that this lens will work on both Canon digital SLRs and Canon film SLRs.
The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens comes standard with both AF (autofocus) and MF (manual focus) modes.
The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens also includes the Macro Mechanism which allows for low magnification for close-up photography. The autofocus function is also available in the macro range on the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens. The minimum focusing distance on the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens is 0.45m / 1.5 ft.
The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens has nominal build quality which is worry for many photogrphers. The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens is made of 16 elements in 12 groups. The measurements of the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens are 3.1"" x 3.5"" / 78.4mm x 89.6mm and the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens weighs in at 17.6 oz / 500g.
The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens has only one compatible lens hood, which is the Canon EW-78D. The filter size for this lens is a 72mm ring.
At 28mm and wide open I noticed quite a bit of vignetting which didn’t seem to clear up until around f/8, but this is easily corrected within the camera raw editing tools.
At 28mm and wide open at f/3.5 the images on the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens seemed to be pretty soft, in-fact they were consistently soft throughout until you stopped down to f/8 or f/11. At 200mm the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens performed consistently soft, but it wasn’t poor image quality by any means. The Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens performed pretty well optically, but I expected more for the price you pay for the lens.
Chromatic aberrations seemed to be a little bit of an issue on the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens at the widest focal length (28mm). I saw some pretty prominent pink bars on some of the shots I took, but most of them were easily corrected using camera raw editing tools.
All-in-all the Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens is an okay lens that performs okay. I was not impressed with the lens optically for the price you pay, but it produced satisfactory images. I think that you would be better off going with the Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens or of course the Canon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM lens is always a more expensive option.
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