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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Lens

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Zoom Lens
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Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens

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Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens

This EF-S lens brings true wide-angle to telephoto coverage to EOS 20D camera, EOS 30D camera, and Digital Rebel camera photographers. It features Canon’s Image Stabilization system, allowing safe hand-held photography at shutter speeds up to three steps slower than otherwise possible. And of course, it’s optically optimized for digital SLRs. A ring-type USM delivers fast and silent auto focus, as well as full-time manual focus when in the AF mode.

The EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens provides a 5x zoom ratio and an angle of view equivalent to a 27-136mm lens on a 35mm camera. The lens also uses a glass-molded aspherical lens element with aspherical surfaces on both sides for superb image quality throughout the entire zoom range and it features a closest focusing distance of 30 cm at all focal lengths. The EF-S 17-85mm IS lens is 5% shorter and 12% lighter than the EF 28-135mm IS lens and accepts 67mm filters.

Key Features

  • Uses optics designed to take full advantage of the small image circle and short back focus in EF-S lenses
  • Features three aspherical lens elements for high image quality at all focal lengths
  • Optimized lens coating minimizing flare and ghosting prone occurring with digital cameras
  • Image Stabilizer gives equivalent effect of a shutter speed three stops faster during hand-held shooting
  • Ring-type USM provides ultra-quite, super-fast, precision auto focusing and predictive tracking
  • Circular aperture diaphragm produces brilliant out-of-focus characteristics

 



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A little about Macro Lenses

Macro lenses are important to photographers who tend to shoot close-ups. That’s because, although they’re quite similar to standard lenses in most ways, macro lenses are engineered to focus at much shorter distances. Most often used in nature photography, these lenses magnify small objects like insects and flowers and captures immense detail and clarity. Other applications of a macro lens are in scientific photography and product photography. You’ll find that macro lenses can also act as a standard lens.

These lenses tend to have a higher f-stop number (which allows in less light) and therefore are not always ideal in low lighting situations. For subjects that are sensitive to movement (insects and animals, for example), macro lenses with longer focal lengths can be used.

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