Customer Rating: 
Summary: Versatile lens for a great body
Comment: Bought the lens to go with my 40D - the combination is versatile and flexible. Don't pay UK retail prices!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Soft and ugly at wide angles, otherwise ok.
Comment: I'm overall a bit disappointed with this lens. None of the reviews I read before I bought it (Jul 2007) indicated the poor performance at wide angles. www.dpreview.com has started doing lens reviews, and zeroed right in on this weakness. Good for them. Even on a small screen size or print, you'll see softness and strong color fringing around high-contrast edges in your wide-angle shots. It doesn't matter if you use a smaller aperture. Landscape lens this is NOT. I found the artifacts so distracting to otherwise wonderful shots that I sent the lens in to Canon under warranty, thinking there was something wrong with it. They made some note of adjusting something, but the optical performance is the same. Bummer.
On the good side, it handles pretty well, the IS seems to work for longer exposures than I would normally handhold, focus is fast and quiet as you would expect. It turns out quite decent performance as soon as you get above about 25-30mm. If I were to do it again, I would probably buy the 17-40L for a walkaround lens, and I have purchased the Canon 10-22 for landscapes. It is sharper at 10mm than this lens is at 17mm. Of course, you're blowing a lot more dough with that combination.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The IS function allows a 2 to 3 stop
Comment: I recently purchased this lens as a complement to the other two IS lenses I have. The Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras and the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens for Canon EOS SLR Cameras.
The IS function allows a 2 to 3 stop slower shutter speed. Fantastic when shooting where flash is not allowed or where you want the extra depth of field a smaller aperature will give you.
As a bonus it has Macro capabilities.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Canon EF-S 17-85mm Lens
Comment: I bought this lens as an upgrade to the 18-55mm lens that came with my Canon EOS Rebel XTi camera. It is quite a nice improvement, noticeably wider lens and heavier, denoting higher quality materials throughout. I think it will be a real good "all around lens" with more zoom capability. I have only taken a couple hundred outdoor pictures and am pleased, I havne't gotten to test out the image stabilization in low light/indoors. Overall, I'm impressed so far and feel that I now need to upgrade my camera to the Canon 40D to get more out of the lens that I've upgraded to.
Customer Rating:
Summary: received it broken
Comment: it did not work and even "shifted" when i took photos. I promptly returned it and amazon gave me no problems with the return, great customer service.
Summary: Versatile lens for a great body
Comment: Bought the lens to go with my 40D - the combination is versatile and flexible. Don't pay UK retail prices!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Soft and ugly at wide angles, otherwise ok.
Comment: I'm overall a bit disappointed with this lens. None of the reviews I read before I bought it (Jul 2007) indicated the poor performance at wide angles. www.dpreview.com has started doing lens reviews, and zeroed right in on this weakness. Good for them. Even on a small screen size or print, you'll see softness and strong color fringing around high-contrast edges in your wide-angle shots. It doesn't matter if you use a smaller aperture. Landscape lens this is NOT. I found the artifacts so distracting to otherwise wonderful shots that I sent the lens in to Canon under warranty, thinking there was something wrong with it. They made some note of adjusting something, but the optical performance is the same. Bummer.
On the good side, it handles pretty well, the IS seems to work for longer exposures than I would normally handhold, focus is fast and quiet as you would expect. It turns out quite decent performance as soon as you get above about 25-30mm. If I were to do it again, I would probably buy the 17-40L for a walkaround lens, and I have purchased the Canon 10-22 for landscapes. It is sharper at 10mm than this lens is at 17mm. Of course, you're blowing a lot more dough with that combination.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The IS function allows a 2 to 3 stop
Comment: I recently purchased this lens as a complement to the other two IS lenses I have. The Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras and the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens for Canon EOS SLR Cameras.
The IS function allows a 2 to 3 stop slower shutter speed. Fantastic when shooting where flash is not allowed or where you want the extra depth of field a smaller aperature will give you.
As a bonus it has Macro capabilities.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Canon EF-S 17-85mm Lens
Comment: I bought this lens as an upgrade to the 18-55mm lens that came with my Canon EOS Rebel XTi camera. It is quite a nice improvement, noticeably wider lens and heavier, denoting higher quality materials throughout. I think it will be a real good "all around lens" with more zoom capability. I have only taken a couple hundred outdoor pictures and am pleased, I havne't gotten to test out the image stabilization in low light/indoors. Overall, I'm impressed so far and feel that I now need to upgrade my camera to the Canon 40D to get more out of the lens that I've upgraded to.
Customer Rating:
Summary: received it broken
Comment: it did not work and even "shifted" when i took photos. I promptly returned it and amazon gave me no problems with the return, great customer service.
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