Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Lenses category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £679
You are here of course to read as many reviews of Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens as you can. We’ve searched the web to pull together a list of retailers that are offering Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens and have lots of good detailed customer reviews. Simply click the “View Reviews” button below to read those customer reviews.
There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Canon or alternative products in the Lenses category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens
Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens scores 8.6/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Lenses. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Lenses, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Lenses? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens scores 8.3/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Lenses category was £2799.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £99.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Lenses category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Lenses category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Lenses category. This was £691.46 from the 153 products we found in that category. So Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens actually comes in below average at £679.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2799.00 and the least expensive, which was £99.00. In total we found that of the 153, 54 were more expensive and 96 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens.
Prices of products from Canon
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Canon. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Canon, which was £431.49 of the 305 products we found. So Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Canon was £3.99 with the most expensive coming in at £2819.00.
Prices of products from Canon and in the Lenses category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Canon that sit specifically within the Lenses category.
For this we found that the average price was £844.06, making Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens at £679 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £2799.00 with the lowest priced item being £99.00. In total there were 27 items that were more expensive and 35 that was less expensive.
Reviews of Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens
Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens scores 9.7/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens is.
Overall score
Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Canon so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens
- Brand: Canon
- Model Number: f/3.55.6
- Ideal for portraitureCompatible with Canon EF-S mountAperture range: f/3.5 – f/38Image stabilisationSilent focus
- EAN: 4960999635262
- Description: Fit the Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens to enjoy a high standard of performance in an all-round standard zoom lens. Capture better photos thanks to a combination of an extensive zoom range with wide angle and telephoto plus a 4-stop Image Stabilizer, delivering outstanding performance and flexibility.Amazing zoom image qualityTake in wide-angle scenes with this top-performing Canon zoom lens, featuring an effective focal length range of around 24 – 136 mm (35 mm equivalent).All your shots will look crisp and inviting with a wider angle than many comparable lenses, as you take in more of the scene and lend enhanced space and perspective to your photography.Enhanced steadiness for your shotsThe Canon EF-S 15-85 mm Zoom Lens is equipped with Canon’s four-stop Image Stabiliser (IS), making it great for handheld shooting.You’ll be able to use shutter speeds some four stops slower than normal without causing image blur, an especially handy feature when taking photos in low light or whilst moving.A USM (UltraSonic Motor) has been fitted to allow for exceptionally fast and near-silent autofocus. It employs ultrasonic frequency vibrations to enable this fantastic facility, and this ring-type USM also permits full-time manual focus override without you having to exit AF mode. It all adds up to a supremely usable lens.Advanced lens propertiesSuper Spectra coating on the Canon EF-S 15-85 mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom Lens actively suppress flare and stop ghosting from occurring. This aberration is common in digital cameras, where reflections off the image sensor can destroy image quality in certain lighting conditions.Achieve beautifully natural colour balance and take shots with improved contrast for overall high-fidelity photographs.With its seven-blade circular aperture, the lens helps you to achieve a gorgeous background blur, where smooth backdrop textures serve to emphasize sharper foreground subjects for more compelling images.The lens also comes with automatic panning and tripod detection for quicker, more convenient setup while shooting.Expand on your EF-S mount camera with a Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom Lens.
- Product ID: 3094661249
