Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

4 starts because otherwise 5 stars is inevitable: 1) Slow autofocus (hunt at times) but is to be expected of a macro lens. 2) built quality not as solid as expected at this price range. I bought this lens instead for two purpose: Macro and Portrait! I was thinking of buying the 100mm macro plus 85mm f1.8 but this lens saves me buying two lenses! I have been very happy with it as what it is. I don't do flying insects very much so it is not a problem but that said I was able to get 1:1 shot of a fly, see sample here: [..] There are other samples in this gallery here: [...] The large aperture (F2.8) means that one could have shallow DOF and great for low light such as this pic: [...] For portrait, I accidentally took this photo during the London Bombing of a women 'Shocked' by the incident unfolding in the public TV display. It was a coincident that her background inmage was the winning Reuter's photo of Tsunami tragedy and the matching colour of their dresses! I was quite far away so was able to capture her from head to toe: [...] This illustrate the capability of both macro and normal photography using this lens. You will not regret it unless your primary aim is to shoot flying insets where longer 100mm or 150mm macro lenses may be needed in this case.