Advantages: Excellent quality pictures, Useful wide angle range. Good build quality. Disadvantages: No lens hood, Not compatible with all EOS cameras
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Specifications
Lens Construction (groups) - 10
Lens Construction (elements) - 13 (3 aspheric elements - 1 Super UD element)
Minimum Aperture - 22-27 (1/3-stop increments 22-29)
Closest Focusing Distance - 0.24m (9.5") at all focal lengths
Maximum Magnification - 0.17x at 22mm setting
Optical Zoom - 2.2x
Filter Diameter - 77mm (thin polarizer required for 10mm use)
Maximum Diameter x Length - 83.5mm x 89.8mm (3.3" x 3.5")
No. of Diaphragm Blades - 6(circular aperture)
Lens Mount Type - EF-S
Weight - 385g (13.5oz)
Hood - optional, petal-shaped, snap-on type
Test shots
The four pictures are test shots all taken from the same position, showing lens prformance at 10mm, 14mm, 18mm and 22mm, respectively. ...
Advantages: great zoom range, good build quality, image stabilization, universal Disadvantages: maximum apertures only average, high price
in or out of the lens body. The creep only occurs when lens is zoomed to some focal lenght between 70 and 135mm.
The focus ring is located behind the zoom ring and can be used to manually tweak the focus in autofocus mode. The ring is a tiny bit loose, but moves smoothly and precisely. It does not rotate during autofocus. There is a distance scale marked both in feet and meters, but no depth of field scale.
The images produced by the lens are of good quality, although there is noticeable vignetting (darkening of the corners) when zoomed to 200mm and using wide apertures. The lens has a variable aperture, the maximum aperture is F3.5 at 18mm and F5.6 at 200mm. It is bright enough for daytime photography but requires assistance from flash when taking pictures indoors to avoid blurs. Sharpness is good across the image, with little ...
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 zoomlens (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 18-55mm sell for around £25-£35 at undamaged/rarely used condition on 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 ...
