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Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM : Specifications and Opinions

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

The Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM is a standard lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 1998 to 2017 (discontinued). The focus is done by Ultrasonic AF Motor (Ring-USM), it has image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 369 €;

56 users have given it an average vote of 8.0 out of 10.

MOUNT

This lens is available with the following mounts:

Canon EF: this lens is compatible with reflex fullframe and APS-C Canon EF.

Specifications
Focal lenght	28-135 mm
Angle of view	75.4 - 18.2°
Format	FF, APS-C
Max. aperture	f/3.5-5.6
Aperture blades	6
Lenses/Groups	16 elements in 12 groups
Min. focus distance	0.50 meters
Reproduction ratio	0.19x
Features
Zoom type	Ring, external
Stabilization	Yes (built in lens)
Focus	Ultrasonic AF Motor (Ring-USM)
Internal Focus	Yes
Built and notes
Tripod ring	No
Extenders	No
Filters	72 mm
Lens hood	Yes (not supplied)
Weather sealing	No
Weight	540 g
Dimensions	78 x 97 mm
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Japko

sent on March 29, 2023

Pros: Lightweight, practical and standard focal ranges always at your fingertips.

Cons: For the cost I would say nothing. It is not an L series but it defends itself.

Opinion: Recently taken to replace a 24-105L that has decided to stop working the diaphragm group!! The 28-135 has its greater versatility, lower weight and smaller footprint. Optically it suffers from AC but in PP I eliminate it in an instant. IDEM disstronions. It does not give you the feeling of robustness of an L lens but to know it first you must have it and therefore also from this point of view the lens is built well. It lacks a lower micro contrast than the 24-105. Maybe that's just what makes it different. But otherwise if used well and closed at f8/11 from in better. The price of used is ridiculous when compared to the 24-105L! AF and IS good and not at all slow or limiting in use. So in my opinion having tried both I miss the extra 4mm and a micro engraving / three-dimensionality of the 24-105. For the rest VOTE 8,5! Paid 80,00€ perfect used! P.S. the 24-105 also has its defects and in fact the "L" deserves it for sure, but it also has gaps ...

Carlmon

sent on February 07, 2022

Pros: Lightweight, economical, optically more than good, excellent blurred, good stabilization, very fast af

Cons: Plastic but sturdy enough, a bit bulky

Opinion: Optics that I recommend. you buy at very good prices around 150 euros in 2022. Optically it is more than discreet always sharp in the center, and closed it is very sharp. the blurred is good. The construction is plastic and looks poor but actually works and lasts. I have carried it everywhere for years and it has always held up. I regretted selling it when I switched to 24-105L. it is very light but bulky. its rival today is the 24-105 STM. Between the latter and the 28-135 for me the choice depends on money and if you need the 24mm wide side. I would opt for the 24-105 because I love the wide

Mikidel

sent on February 07, 2022

Pros: Fortunately mistreated, good sharpness, classic focal range from film, compactness, colors, stabilizer that despite being the first series produced by Canon helps in low lights.

Cons: Two-cam excursion zoom that generates slight transverse movements of the lenses, completely plastic (although partly of good quality) except for the bayonet which is made of metal.

Opinion: Looking for vintage optics to be used for light outputs and maybe with a single lens, without carrying around much more expensive optics in risky places, I came across an opportunity for an almost immaculate specimen that I bought for the equivalent of a fifty f1.8 II used or a little more. Honestly from the first shots (made among other things with the Canon 5D Mk IV at full resolution) I had the feeling of having in my hand a different lens from the one that has been reviewed by many as a bottle bottom or so. It will not be the Canon EF 24-70 f2.8 L II or the 24-105 f4 L IS, but neither will it be the 18-55 series I and II for aps-c to which some compare it. The colors are the classic old school Canon ones that I found in the 24-85 that I already owned and in the canon 50mm f1.4 usm. Distortion and peripheral AC can be corrected with a click using the lens profile in Photoshop, while good sharpness is present at all focal lengths. The weight, accustomed to much heavier optics that I have and that I have had in the past, for me is quite light and very manageable in size, also the construction (even if it is not the best with the double cam for zoom), perhaps thanks to the excellent state of conservation of my specimen, does not suffer for the moment of the slipping of the front lens group when put upside down, nor of an excessive transversal game. For those looking for a good optics as a first purchase for an FF body without spending excessively I highly recommend it.

Arnaldo83

sent on September 17, 2020

Pros: covered focal points, cheap, stabilized, light, versatile

Cons: "plastic", not exceptional sharpness

Opinion: I have had this lens since 2006, from my first Canon 30D (on which it was actually little wide-angle, but I survived). He accompanied me to discover photography and even now (on 5D II), although not very often, it comes in handy. The sharpness at TA is not great, but closing a little improves, but above all, as always, depends what you have to do: for small prints or situations from immediate jpeg, the results will definitely not be to be despised, with good colors and sharpness more than enough. Stabilization is not as phenomenal as the most modern, but for the years it has, it does its job well. Little bulky and light (although, as mentioned, a bit "plastic"), it is a very good and really economical lens to start to become familiar with the various focals and then eventually evolve towards something of higher quality. Distortion present, but not exaggerated (less than that of more recent targets). What to say: it will not be a super top ever, but for the figures it is around, it maintains in my opinion a rather interesting value for money and for example associated with an old FF (5D I or II) can allow with very little expense to start to experience.

Mediamenta

sent on November 13, 2019

Pros: Extension

Cons: Limited stabilizer, optical defects

Opinion: Bought a dozen years ago. It's basically a 4x zoom, including pretty much all the focal lengths you need. A unique lens for unpretentious photos, or even full hd static videos, to be used especially on NOT particularly resolute FFs, such as the 6D, which compensates with the most high ISO tightness the low brightness of the lens. For me, however, the advantage is another: it is the best lens when, in cycling competitions, at the first step of the shots there is the swarm of athletes. Then it becomes more valuable than 24-105, because depending on the moments you are able to even take double photos, when then comes some isolated athlete, without pulling out a zoom canvas. In these situations you shoot in medium or small jpeg, so all defects found become secondary. In other words, it is not held for amateur pleasure, but for necessity in some areas of work. It does not have a remarkable establishment, because it is not evolved.

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