Cosina lenses for Eos

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Hi, I was wondering if anybody has any experience with Cosina lenses for a Canon Eos camera. I am looking at buying a Cosina wide angle 19mm To 35mm. I would like to know if these lenses are well built and if they deliver good pictures, also wondering about after sales service if needed. Photodo has this lens rated 3.1 on 5. Good from 19mm to 24mm.

-- peter denon (pdenon@home.com), March 29, 2001

Answers

This lens is also marketed by Phoenix & Vivitar. It's a decent lens and very affordable. It's usually regarded about the same as the Cosina/Phoenix/Vivitar 100 f/3.5 Macro. Which means that if feels cheap but has had no reliability problems. It's inexpensive but provides reasonably sharp pictures. It's certainly not the best lens in its class, but it's about the lowest cost lens in its class.

In my opinion, it is one of those rare exceptions to the rule; "You get what you pay for." With these two Cosina built lenses you get a bit more.

-- Jim Strutz (j.strutz@gci.net), March 29, 2001.


Hi Jim, I was wondering if the Cosina lens is 100% compatible with the Rebel 2ooo body. I had read some place that certain brands might cause camera freeze up, is Cosina one of them? This lens is only available through mail order so I cant try it on the camera before purchase. Thank-you for the previous information.

-- peter denon (pdenon@home.com), April 01, 2001.

Never tried it on a Rebel 2000. I did use it with a Rebel G, Elan IIe, A2E and several older bodies.

Most incompatibility problems are with Sigma lenses, although other brands have had some occasional problems with Canon cameras as well. I've never heard of this lens ever having a compatibility problem, but maybe somebody out there has used the EOS 300/Rebel 2000 with the 19-35mm Cosina/Pheonix/Vivitar lens and can give us a definitive answer.

-- Jim Strutz (jimstrutz@juno.com), April 02, 2001.


Hi Guys,

I've used the Vivitar 19mm-35mm on my Rebel 2000 (Eos 300) and Eos 10QD without facing any problems. The pictures came out pretty decent for most of the landscape shots I took.

-- Kevin Chooi (kevchooi@yahoo.com), April 04, 2001.


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