Specifications

Vignetting

On the EOS 350D with its reduced format (APS-C) the (full format) lens exhibits quite pronounced vignetting at wide-open aperture which is a little surprising for a full format lens. However, from f/4 & up the problem is quite negligible.

MTF (resolution)

When looking at the MTF chart below you may come to the conclusion that the lens is a superb performer. Usuallythis is also correct with an excellent center and border performance at all tested aperture settings (at very small aperture settings there'll be the usual diffraction effects naturally).

However, it is worth to notice that the lens showed a rather unusual behavior in the lab - during the initial tests the performance dropped from f/2.8 to f/4 without improving till f/8. Quite bizarre (normally the focus distance at (~60x focal-length) remains untouched during a test across the aperture range). Upon discussing the effect in the local forum (thanks, Joachim!) one explanation for this may be that the focus point moves slightly dependent on the aperture (residual spherical aberration). Usually this is nothing to worry about because the increased depth-of-field hides these minor focus effects. However, it seems as if this focus shift is more pronounced with this lens.

So is this behavior field relevant ? Yesno. You will not see any effect e.g. in landscape shots but you may experience slight focus errors at closer focus distances (at least at the used test distance of ~1.5m). In manual focusing mode you focus at working aperture (f/2.8) and when choosing a medium aperture you'll ultimately run into this situation - it's a good idea to take advantage of the depth-of-field preview here. 
The AF -may- take advantage of the lens ROM which should contain the corresponding data about the optimal focus point in order to choose a focus compromise. It is unknown whether and/or how EOS cameras are applying corrections here and the specific AF behavior of the test camera is meaningless statistically.

The chart below reflects the optimal performance obtained at slightly different focus settings across the aperture range (which is actually a non-standard test method here).

Below is a simplified summary of the formal MTF findings. The chart shows in line widths per picture height (LW/PH) which can be taken as a measure for sharpness. If you want to know more about it you may check out the corresponding Imatest Explanations.

Chromatic Aberrations (CAs)

CAs are quite well under control with this lens with an average CA pixel width at the image borders below 1 pixel. However, it's not a very special performance either.