daninr8 Loc: Western Slope of Colorado

I have questions about the Canon 17-85mm efs lens.
What is the full time manual function feature?
Is it a good walk around lens?
Is it better than the 18-55mm kit lens?
Will it work with the Canon T3i?
What is the quality of the lens?
Thanks for the answers.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

DaveMM Loc: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I owned / used this lens with an XTi for about 6-months. The results were excellent except for a few challenges as follows:

1. The lens struggles when focusing on a subject at about 2-feet or less from the camera / lens. The results lack a strong focus.
2. When shooting well lighted objects at night, there's a good deal of chromatic aberration. This can be fixed in post processing but the sharpness of the picture suffers.
3. There's a good deal of lens creep. This can be corrected with a strong rubber band or a branded LensBand.

There are better lenses, yes. But this lens performs well for general purposes at a lower cost than those other lenses. I sold the lens after upgrading to an L lens that overlapped at the same focal lengths and the EF-S wasn't getting much use.

AntonioReyna Loc: Los Angeles, California

I have had two copies of this lens and it is a great all around lens with pretty good quality, a much better build than the 18-55 kit lens and greater reach. On the Canon crop sensor cameras, you need a lens like this when you are shooting people indoors, as, with the multiplier effect, it gives you around a 26-27 on the wide side, perfect for shooting people inside. I have also had and recommend the 18-200 Canon lens. I have heard good things about the 15-85 EFS lens, but have not used it. The attached pics were all recently taken with that lens on a 50D body

daninr8 Loc: Western Slope of Colorado

Thanks for the answers. I think I will try this lens out. I'll be posting some photos from it within the next two weeks. Have a safe New Year's, Hoggers.

anotherview Loc: California

Here are three reviews:

http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/canon_17-85_4-5p6_is_usm_c16/4

http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/17-85-is.htm

http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/179-canon-ef-s-17-85mm-f4-56-usm-is-test-report--review

You may wish to consider the newer EF-S 15-85mm lens, or the new Sigma 17-70mm lens.

http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/465-canon_1585_3556is

http://slrgear.com/reviews/showproduct.php/product/1560

Happy New Year!