Surprisingly, I've kinda fallen in love with this lens! My wife got it for me a year ago and I like to wait a while before submitting a review on this type of thing...so here we are. Yes, this lens has been around a LONG TIME (20 years or so), Obviously for good reason....it very good!

I bought this lens because I couldn't afford the 24-105 but wanted a medium range lens that would work well for photojournalism. What I got was an excellent lens with awesome quality.

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

This is not your L series lens. But, it is a good every day carry for a full frame camera. Having recently upgraded from APS-C to Full Frame, I needed a basic lens. This works. I might have given it 5 stars..but then where would I put the L series lenses.

this is a very good lens, so far I have enjoyed using it. you get distance and wide angle with it. you can shoot anything that you want with it and feel confident of the out come.

Consistent Output; Easily Interchangeable; Fast / accurate auto-focus

The is an excellent lens for the price. If you are looking at getting an image stablized lens this is a good choice. This lens has been in Canon's inventory for a while, and I expect it to remain that way. I've used this lens to photograph my daughter as well as outdoors and macro shooting.

Light weight; sharp photos; image stablization

None that I've found

I love the size of this lense because I can take great pictures even when I'm already close to the subject. These were 'quick' shots. As you know, babies don't stay in the same position for long.

We bought this lens to go with my wife's EOS 500D as we didn't fancy the kit lenses on offer with the camera body. It proved to be a wise choice. Landscape and other wide-angled applications are not really her field of interest so the zoom range is ideal.

Consistent Output; Durable; Easily Interchangeable; Quick Focus; Rugged; Sharp Focus; Strong Construction

Heavy

love this lens. does what its meant to - capture beautiful images but there is specs of dust inside it which shows up in the final image. I ordered this lens to film a wedding, throughout the whole video you can see these specs.

This is the best lens I have tried to date with my new Canon D60. I get a lot of shots of people from far enough away that they are totally unaware I am shooting a candid shot.