{"id":581,"date":"2012-01-25T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2012-01-25T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:37:53","slug":"canon-15-85mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Canon 15-85mm"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the addition of Tokina 10-17 Fisheye to my kit my lens needs underwater are pretty well served now. However, my lens collection was still lacking a good general purpose walk-around lens. I have been using the 550D kit lens (Canon 18-55mm II) for this purpose. While it’s a pretty good for a kit lens, after using some higher end lenses (particularly the super-sharp Canon 60mm macro), the short-comings of the lens have become pretty annoying.<\/p>\n

After some consideration and research, I ended up buying a used Canon 15-85mm IS USM<\/a>.\u00a0It’s quite expensive for a non-L lens, but at I least found a pretty good deal on Ebay. Haven’t had much chance to play with the lens yet, but so far I’m pretty happy with the purchase. The lens is a lot sharper than the kit lens and the autofocus is just superb. It also has a very useful focal range of 15-85mm which covers most normal photography needs. The only real downsides are the variable aperture (3.5-5.6) and the fact that it’s little heavy on the 550D body.<\/p>\n

My lens collection (excluding the 18-55mm kit lens which will now end up on Ebay)\u00a0is now as follows:<\/p>\n