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Pashley Guv’nor

The Brits really got me with their classic styles. I mean, how could we not appreciate a bike that is made in Shakespeare hometown?!

I think i’m in love.

What are some popular Canon EF and EF-S lenses?

Here are a number of popular Canon EF and EF-S lenses you might come across.

EF 16-35 2.8L USM and EF 17-35 2.8L USM.
Professional-quality new and old fast wide-angle zoom lenses, used by many photojournalists. Expensive.

EF 17-40 4L USM.
Affordable and optically slower version of the above, popular with advanced amateurs.

EF-S 18-55 3.5-5.6.
Pretty well every owner of a consumer digital EOS camera has one of these, since they’re bundled with most affordable models sold. Image quality is OK considering the rock-bottom price.

EF-S 17-85mm 4-5.6 IS USM.
Very popular with users of Canon’s subframe D-SLRs, this lens combines decent image quality with a useful focal length range and has image stabilizing to boot.

EF 28mm 2.8.
Inexpensive lightweight wide-angle lens, suitable for landscapes and so on.

EF 50mm 1.8 and EF 50mm 1.8 II.
Super-cheap lightweight fast lenses, ideal for beginners and advanced amateurs. Take surprisingly sharp pictures for the price.

EF 50mm 1.4 USM.
Versatile standard lenses, useful in low light. These lenses contain micromotor USM mechanisms that unusually support full-time manual focussing.

EF 24-70 2.8L USM and EF 28-70 2.8L USM.
Large, heavy black L series lenses, noted for their high quality. Expensive and popular with wedding photographers.

EF 24-105 4L IS USM.
Very popular and quite expensive L-series image-stabilized walkaround lens.

EF 28-70 3.5-4.5 II.
Cheap older lenses with a reputation for decent optical quality despite the really low price. Rotating recessed end makes filter use awkward, however.

EF 28-80 3.5-5.6 II-V, 28-90 4-5.6.
Extremely cheap Canon lenses, supplied with many low-end camera bodies as kit lenses. Lousy optics.

EF 24-85 3.5-4.5 USM, 28-105 3.5-4.5 USM and EF 28-105 3.5-4.5 USM II.
Medium-sized, medium-priced and medium-speed lenses popular with many amateur photographers. The 24-85 is particularly popular with APS and subframe digital EOS users owing to its wider short end. Do not confuse the 28-105 3.5-4.5 lenses with their cheaper and slower 4-5.6 cousins.

EF 28-135 3.5-5.6 IS USM.
Popular and versatile midrange lenses equipped with image stabilization for low-light shooting.

EF 85mm 1.8 USM.
Sharp and relatively inexpensive prime lenses, ideally suited for portraiture.

EF 100mm 2.8 Macro and EF 100mm 2.8 Macro USM.
True macro lenses capable of 1:1 closeup photography, yet equally useful as portrait lenses.

EF 70-200 2.8L USM and EF 70-200 2.8L IS USM.
Heavy white L series lenses, favoured by a lot of photojournalists. Expensive.

EF 70-200 4L USM.
Optically slower and less heavy siblings to the 2.8L. Considered a bargain for the price by many photographers, and popular with advanced amateurs.

EF 70-200 4L IS USM.
The image stabilized version of the 4L. Much more expensive, however.

EF 70-300mm 4-5.6 IS USM.
A popular lens for its compromise between size, convenience and image quality. Much sharper than its 75-300 predecessors, and image stabilization is a big plus. Not to be confused with the DO (diffractive optics) lens, which is extremely expensive.

EF 75-300 4-5.6.
Commonly available cheapie-series telephoto lenses (see below). Ubiquitous owing to the low price, but optically poor.

EF 1200mm 5.6L USM.
Okay, so these gigantic and insanely expensive telephoto lenses aren’t popular as such, but always feature prominently in Canon’s lens advertising. Canon will gladly custom-build one for you, given a prepaid order. I think they run for roughly the cost of a luxury automobile.
Frankly if you need this sort of focal length you’re better off with the 600mm 4L IS USM and a 2x teleconverter, though admittedly you’ll need an EOS 1V, 1D, 1Ds or 3 to autofocus with it.

From http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/lenses.html

John describes it aptly: “Its been a little over a year since I started to ride this set up. I haven`t changed a thing (although I do eventually want to change out the seat post). It still rides like it should and (as you can see) all the leather parts have worn in nicely. I am a firm believer in using whatever it is you own and the more you use, it inevitably becomes an extension of you. A friend recently told me that a grandparent of theirs had owned and still wore the same pair of leather boots for over 40 years, and this was a common way of thinking not less than a half century ago. We as consumers need to think less about so easily throwing away that which we needn’t have bought in the first place and more about holding onto that which we eventually, will hold dear”.

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Reading the Charts

• Find your height on the left column(s)
• For Road Bikes and Mountain Bikes
  • Find your inseam across the top, in either inches or centimeters (cm)
  • Find where the two columns intersect - this is your general frame size
• For BMX Bikes
  • Find the “X” and “-” for your height, and look at the frame size in the column heading
• Any frame sizes highlighted in yellow may work for you
• Crank size/length is also shown at the very bottom
• Depending on your riding style, body type, and personal preference, you may prefer a smaller or larger frame, but you can use this size as a starting point.

From http://www.ebicycles.com

Road bikes, designed for paved surfaces, are ideal for road riding, racing, touring and commuting.

Mountain bikes are designed for off-road riding on rough terrain such as dirt, mud, gravel, roots and rocks.

BMX bikes are designed for racing, jumping and freestyle riding on dirt tracks, ramps and in skate parks.

From http://www.ebicycles.com

Carbon Fiber Bike Frames

An all carbon frame at the moment seems to be what every one wants. Although titanium is very nice, carbon fiber frames are more affordable and probably more popular. Some of the nicest bike frames on the market are carbon, most of the big and famous frame builders now make at least one carbon fibre bike frame.

The most famous of these are Giant, Colnago, De Rosa, Look, Trek and Pinarello and there are many, many more, all very beautiful.

From www.bikecyclingreviews.com

The geometry of a bike frame also differs when the purpose is mountain biking, road, bmx, or single speed. There are frame charts where you can check the correct size to use depending on your height, inseam and some other variables.