Compact lens, lightweight and great quality.

John Lewis matched the price I found somewhere else and was ready to coll ct the next day, couple this with a two year guarantee and it was a no brainier. The lens feels solid and well built, the results are superb, you need to remember though that when photographing at close differences the...

Fantastic special-use lens for serious amateur photographers.

quality..; of construction, of optics; Simply outstanding

Doesn't work with all Canon models

This lens is awesome, the clarity is amazing. If you are looking for a good Macro lens this is it. I really love that you can use it for other things as well as Macro. Love this lens

Clarity; versitality and price

I bought this lens as a "Photography pack, it came with a canon camera remote and a lens cleaning pen.. I use it often amazing results, clarity is excellent, smooth noiseless auto focus.. you could just about catch a bacteria on a gnats bum with this beauty..

I'm so glad I got this lens. Its great for portraits and of course macro photography is wonderful with this lens. The back ground blur is so pretty with this lens. It hasn't left my camera since I purchased it 2 weeks ago. no IS, but i dont find it's an issue with handheld photo's.

A compact macro lens for EF-S compatible Canon SLRs which provides life-size magnification at its closest focus.

Good resolution performance; Internal focusing; Fast focus speed; especially for a macro lens; Barely any CA; Good control of ghosting and flare; Compact; lightweight design

No focus limiter switch

Great combo macro / portrait lens. Stop it down just a little and it's a gem. Several of the images I made with this lens have been made into popular landscape prints, posters, canvases. I'll get a surprise when I'm in a strange place walking down a hallway and see one of my images.

Great image quality from 3.5 on; excellent AF on any body from the 40D on

A little soft wide open

This is Canon's first macro lens dedicated to APS-C sized sensors, so it's geared towards cameras such as the EOS 30D or 350D. The focal length on an APS-C sensor Canon camera is extended by 1.6x, so this lens offers the equivalent of 96mm.

Fast and quiet focus; good image quality

Slower to switch between manual and auto focus

Designed for use with Canon's APS-C sized sensors....

Fast and quiet focus; good image quality

Slower to switch between manual and auto focus