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Title: Great lens. Kind of expensive.
Review: This lens costs nearly as much as an 'L' lens of the same focal range, but is not made quite as well. It's a pretty long and heavy lens for the focal range, and the hood is just silly big (I guess that's how it has to be, though). The hood is not included with the lens, and costs $50(!) dollars, on top of an already pricey lens. I somewhat miss the longer zoom range of the 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS that I replaced with this lens, but that lens was just ridiculously slow. Oh well, I guess it's all about trade-offs in this game.Still, it *is* a great lens. It's sharp, in my experience, and I'm happy to have the (much) larger maximum aperture, which is the whole reason I bought it.
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