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Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
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Reviews and Problems with Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
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- Overall 4
Just a standard zoom, some issues
Mark, Amazon
15 July 2012
- Summary: I can confirm that this thing is a dust sucker. Just two weeks of light use and mine has dust inside. For the price the build quality is really not good- though it is not...
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- Overall 4
Stick to the L Lens
Bella, Amazon
24 March 2012
- Summary: I rented this lens and most of my images came out blurry. If I had been able to use a flash, the images may have come out better(?).
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- Overall 4
Halation and CA (see photo in Customer Images)
D. LAVIOLETTE "brightondale", Amazon
19 March 2011
- Summary: There are many good qualities to this lens as all the reviewers mention, but my copy had a bad problem with halation combined with chromatic aberration.
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- Overall 4
Dust Sucker!
Stephen Selph, Amazon
7 February 2011
- Summary: I am on my second copy of this lens. Both lenses accumulated significant dust underneath the front element within one week of owning this lens.
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- Overall 4
Distortion!
Bill, Canon
3 December 2010
- Conclusion: This lens has terrible pincushion distortion! At any focal length above about 20 mm, a rectangle that fills the screen will be severely distorted.
- Cons: Semi-sharp images, pincushion distortion!
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- Overall 4
Stick with the kit 18-55 lens
J. D. Mitchell, Amazon
23 August 2010
- Summary: I, like most of you have the standard18-55 kit lens (Rebel models). Having a degree in commercial and industrial photography, I know the lens is the second factor (behind...
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- Overall 4
slightly dis appointed
T. catchings, Amazon
6 April 2009
- Summary: After reading some very good reviews of this lens, I was very diaappointed to see dust inside the lens, including a fairly large spot, within days after getting it.
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- Overall 4
Dust !!!
Josef Tichanek "joe0821", Amazon
19 September 2008
- Summary: First the positives. The lens optically is a good lens, it does sharp images, nice colors and all that stuff. But the big problem is dust that gets inside of the lens.
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- Overall 4
Very Disappointed
B. Harris, Amazon
30 July 2008
- Summary: I really wanted to like this lens. I read so many positive reviews and so many reports showing excellent performance.
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- Overall 4
Tooooo heavy
Karen, B&H Photo
5 June 2008
- Summary: The weight of the lens almost makes it unusable for me. It even injured my thumb from holding it up. It is also a little more noisy than what I would like.
- Cons: Heavy, Lens Creep
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