Review on Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 Image Stabilized USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLR Cameras - White Box (Bulk Packaging) by Somchai Vongxaiburan ᠌

Name: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 Image Stabilized USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLR Cameras - White Box (Bulk Packaging)
Item: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 Image Stabilized USM SLR Lens for EOS Digital SLR Cameras - White Box (Bulk Packaging)
Rating: 4

September 13, 2022

Good product, not disappointed.

A chic replacement for a whale 18-55. It's like transferring from a Cossack to a Logan. When you put on your pants over your head, and now you can do it like all normal people. Used options are very carefully worth buying. Since you may be overtaken by replacing the diaphragm cable. Well, the backlash of the focusing ring, when when you lower the camera down with the lens, the trunk falls out by itself from its weight. But it makes no sense to buy a new one for 19.5, since for this money you can buy anything on ebay, but not this lens and everything will be better. As a staff member, the 18-55 alternative is simply unmatched. Everything else is stupidly more expensive. In total, at the moment it makes no sense to buy this thing, but in itself it is very good, but only at the old price of 9-10 thousand

Pros

1. Image quality for its price. I mean 9 thousand, not 19.5 that they want for him now. For 19.5 it is simply not needed. 2. Stabilizer. 3. Convenient focal lengths. 4. Fast and accurate autofocus 5. Sharpness, compared even with 17-40L. On an open hole, of course, do not expect it, but starting from 5, everything looks very good. 6. Nice appearance compared to other kits and other cheap lenses. With a hood, it's absolutely gorgeous.

Cons

1. Weak constructive. Over time, the zoom ring begins to play. The aperture cable is frayed and the lens comes out of storage. The harness itself is cheap (200-250). To replace it, you need to disassemble the entire lens. In the service, repairs will cost from 2500 and more. Backlash and the above jamb can happen even after a year of use. 2. Long trunk vacuum cleaner. 3. Barrel distortion at wide end 17-24, but not fatal. It is edited in editors, and often it is a feature in general. 4. Chromatitis, 18-55 for example does not suffer from this, which is very strange. 5. Price at the moment. Not that it is a minus, but simply puts an end to the purchase of this lens.