Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM - the widest and fastest budget native natural perspective lens!

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Thanks to ‪@steve_heise‬ for the tip on this lens!
0:00 - Start
0:33 - Why this one?
2:32 - Some history of Canon lenses
4:44 - Who convinced me to buy it
5:41 - Size & analogues
7:32 - Angle of view & aperture blades
8:16 - Weight
8:44 - Mount
9:43 - AF/MF switch, focusing screen, MFD
10:32 - Focusing (manual and auto)
11:37 - Unique feature & filtre thread
13:15 - Lens hood
14:00 - Sharpness
15:34 - Distortion
16:13 - Chromatic aberration and vigneting
17:01 - Coma (beware!)
17:52 - Bokeh (somewhat special)
19:32 - What it's good and not good for

Пікірлер: 14

@mariolopez.photographer 29 күн бұрын

Great review Paul!!! I just purchased the Canon 7s 35mm film camera and I think this lens will work perfectly for landscapes and street work!!!

@davochannel-nk8gc Ай бұрын

Nice review on this old lens........ I do a fair bit of environmental Light painting portrait photography at night, I normally use a RF 16mm f 2.8 and an EF 50mm f1.2 but was thinking this lens would be a nice cheap in between lens with a fast Aperture.

@terrencelee7364 5 ай бұрын

Keep up the good work and I really liked the live example of aperture. More of that please

@jack_intervales 4 ай бұрын

Very good, congratulation !!!

@0ecka 3 ай бұрын

Hey, that's a rare type of a proper lens review. Well done :). I've been shooting with this little beauty since 2017. What I've learned is that it works best for close range photography. It's definitely not a landscaping lens ). The bokeh this lens can produce is insane! And it is rather unique that way. I'm not talking about the amount of background blur, but about its character. Usually fast wide angle primes tend to produce quite ugly bokeh with stretched and torn bokeh-balls. But not this 28mm. This one is very yummy ). It's not a sharp lens by modern standards, but if I have to get the most detail out of it, then I stop it down to F9-F11. But, for landscaping, a cheap kit zoom would probably do a better job. I did use it for stitching landscapes (as a workaround) and it was fine, on a 20mp FF camera. So, yeah, it's great for street, portrait, pets, cars, party, forest, food, flowers, mushrooms and stuff like that.

@Paul_Kretz 5 ай бұрын

Have you ever used it? What are your thoughts? Here are landscape JPEGs and raws at all apertures on full frame and cropped sensors to check out: disk.yandex.ru/d/q8_-8O1EHD6Hjg P.S. I forgot about *EF 28mm f/2.8 AFD* (old and mediocre) and *EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM* - way better in all respects, except aperture, but imho unfairly and incomparably expensive.

@Guillaume9 23 күн бұрын

20mm is good, just not put your camera at an angle and you would not see that much perspective distortion ;)

@robertsaunders5740 5 ай бұрын

I just got the 1997 Canon 70--210mm zoom. Ultrasonic as part of a thrift store package. Not sure what the little window is telling me and took pictures of the BIODIGESTER TANK at the sewer plant. Very nice images.

@robertsaunders5740 5 ай бұрын

Correction as the original receipt was in the bag. Sold new as a package June 1993. As for the little window, when switched to manual focus and you turn the smaller ring the scale tells you the macro focus distance.