The Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens delivers fast and accurate AF, very good image quality and image stabilization in a light, compact and moderately-priced package. This statement may sound familiar, and if you read the Canon EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens Review , the rest of this review is also going...

Gary Wolstenholme reviews the prime, wide-angle, Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM lens.

Good build quality; Lightweight; Image Stabilisation; Outstanding sharpness; Focuses close

Expensive; Falloff at maximum aperture

The Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM is a capable but pricey wide-angle prime that will appeal most to landscape and reportage photographers looking for a small, lightweight and responsive lens.

We would like to thank Canon Poland for lending us the lens for testing purposes. You are also invited to get acquainted with our test procedure, described in the article "How do we test lenses?

compact and solid casing; excellent image quality in the frame centre; good image quality on the edge of APS-C sensor; well-corrected chromatic aberration; slight spherical aberration; moderate distortion; low coma on APS-C; negligible astigmatism; very good work against bright light; very fast and...

weak image quality on the edge of full frame at the maximum relative aperture; huge vignetting on full frame; high coma in the corners of full frame detector; modest accessory kit

For starters some background: In June this year I bought the new 40mm pancake which reminded me that prime lenses are preferable in many cases. Their discrete size and the lightweight prove beneficial when walking around; but also the fact that they force not to be lazy about image composition I...

Superior build quality; Super-sharp images; small discreet size; low light performance

price

One can say that a 28mm lens is too narrow, especially for a APS-C camera but I love it.

Handling and features This new wide angle prime lens from Canon sports a fast f/2.8 maximum aperture, image stabilisation and an ultrasonic focus motor. This lens is currently costs around ￡700. Does the performance of this lens match up to the price? Here we will take a look.

I bought this lens for my Canon Rebel EOS T2i which is a few years old. I was hoping for a wider angle capability, but after receiving it and trying it on the camera, it turned out that I actually had a wider angle capability on one of my existing lenses, so returned to a Best Buy store for a full...

Image Stabilization; Auto Focus

It fits tighter on my Canon Rebel EOS T2i than previous lens purchases

I purchased this lens due to the multiplication factor of Digital Cameras. This lens works as a normal size focal length and the wide open f-stop gives it excellent used in low light situations. I'd recommend to family and friends.

Just wanted to offset the bad reviews with a good one. This lens produces sharp images on my 5D and T2i. Even at f2.8 the images look crisp and the colors are good. Of course with these newer DSLRs color can be tweaked in-camera so it's not a big issue.

small; lightweight; sharp; affordable

could have a tougher build