Advantages: Awesomely sharp. Wide Aperture gives great control. Great colour. Disadvantages: A little fragile. Would prefer with Image Stabiliser.
This is the professional photographer's portrait zoom lens of choice. The constant F/2.8 aperture across the zoom range provides excellent performance in low-light, and the best control over depth of field in any zoom lens on the market today. Lens pe ...
...I bought this lens to accompany my Canon EOS 450d and it really has been a brilliant purchase. Pick one up on Amazon for well under £200 which is an absolute bargain. It has very good build quality and you really will notice the picture quality differen ...
Advantages: Worst lens for a professional but good to start out with; cheap; easy to learn with; Disadvantages: Worst lens for a pro, frontal element rotates,
...Must make this clear that it is the older version of 18-55mm before they upgraded it to fit the 450D and above. So 400D and below. When starting out in photography; most people get entry level camera body like 400D Canon EOS, this lens ...
Advantages: very good optics at 18mm. Image stabilisation works very well. VERY light, VERY cheap, Disadvantages: Slow Auto Focus, comparatively poor optical quality at longer ranges, looks and feels cheap
...previous reviews for this item seem to be for the "old" kit lens. The item reviewed here is the Image stabilised version of this lens. It is the kit lens for the Canon EOS 450D. This is one of the most under-rated EFS lenses canon makes. The Image St ...
Advantages: Keeps the dust off the sensor! Disadvantages: Poor quality. Poor build quality, Poor performance.
...I have both purchased and won several entry level Canon DSLR's, each of which have been furnished with this 'kit' lens. It is quite obviously the result of cost-cutting exercises at Canon in an effort to keep a headline grabbing low prices for the cam ...
