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,
...level camera body like 400D Canon EOS, this lens comes with the body to form the basic kit lens. As far as I know, you cannot purchase this lens officially with its boxes and such, you can buy one off Ebay for a reduced price of £50 or so without its boxes. Before purchasing the entire kit, you will have to realise that the lens will have to be replaced very soon as it does not perform as well as its counterparts such as Canon 24-105mm for example. ... ...that clips onto the front? Canon obviously thought that people who uses filters will have upgraded from this lens before it became a problem. Obviously they were wrong. This lens suffers massive flares when approached by certain sunlight, it shows up in my photos and effectively ruins them. Also, it exhibits the purple fringing; it is visible at all focal lengths and apertures. Nothing anyone can do to prevent this, it is to do with the chromatic ...
Annallon 03.07.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Canon EF-S zoom lens - 18 mm - 55 mm F/3.5-5.6
Advantages: Keeps the dust off the sensor! Disadvantages: Poor quality. Poor build quality, Poor performance.
...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 camera/lens combinations as advertised in the photographic press and at point of sale. This is very evident in the build quality of the lens. It is really quite poor. Very plasticy, extremely light (too light in my opinion) ... ...This isn't a lens Canon can be proud of and one which I believe is a marketing error. Something more substantial, better quality and of higher specification would be more welcome and I believe, better received as a 'kit' lens - even within the budget constraints of 'entry level' DSLR's.
Not nice!
David Chamberlain ...
davecham 26.12.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Canon EF-S zoom lens - 18 mm - 55 mm F/3.5-5.6
Advantages: Cheap and light Disadvantages: Grainy photo quality, low zoom
I recently purchased a sweet Canon 400D/XTi Rebel from Amazon.co.uk (£45 cashback!) and this standard zoom lens (Canon EF-S 18-55mm) came with it. As far as I know, you cannot purchase the Canon EF-S 18-5mm on it's own, as it's designed specifically to be sold with the 400D/XTi Rebel package. I'm sure you can pick up a cheap one on eBay though (probably removed from a kit package, or being sold due to an upgrade from kit package). I've seen the EF-S ... ...eBay, which is quite cheap!
I obviously chose the kit lens package with my 400D/XTi Rebel as it only adds about £40 in the price difference, and I couldn't afford a new lens at that time. Before I start reviewing the actual lens, I'd like to say that is is a kit lens. It doesn't have a great built quality, and doesn't perform very well obviously. You WILL need to upgrade eventually, as it'll degrade/break or you'll find the zoom limit restricting. ...
ferocity 14.06.2008
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