Review on Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS 📷 II SLR Lens - White Box Edition by Thu Hang Bach ᠌

Name: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS 📷 II SLR Lens - White Box Edition
Item: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS 📷 II SLR Lens - White Box Edition
Rating: 3

September 13, 2022

There are deviations, in general it is tolerable.

If you take an entry-level carcass a la 1100D and don’t know what you want from photography at all or don’t want anything at all, and you just need a camera to take pictures for your home archive and that’s it, this lens is enough for you. Then buy something like 55-250 for shooting birds in the park and you will be just happy. For serious tasks, this glass is no longer enough, I have been shooting with it exactly since the time when I bought my first DSLR in 2022 - 600D and it was there as a whale glass, now I have a 7D Mark 2 and I am mainly busy with reportage shooting, to say that the slowness of this lens often infuriates me is to say nothing. For the time being, for lack of another, I'm shooting for this one, but I'm waiting for the day when, in addition to a decent telephoto lens, I will also have a decent wide aperture. I am attaching a few pictures from this glass to the review.
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Pros

An excellent "glass" to start, seriously, just to start, well, for amateur landscape photography. For the most part, it doesn't do much for anything else. I don’t know what else to add to the block of advantages, probably a small weight, the lens weighs nothing at all, it’s a fluff.

Cons

- Jumping diaphragm -Small aperture -Sharpness is sorely lacking -HA are so strong that no checkmark in Lightroom will remove them -Very noisy and slow autofocus. If you are shooting something in silence and do not want to draw too much attention to yourself, then avoid LiveView focusing. this lens very often becomes dull at such aiming and searches for an object for shooting for a long time -Fully plastic housing. No protection at all.

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Kiyoshi Nakazawa ᠌

November 16, 2022

If you bought with a camera, do not sell .

Agata Stadnicka ᠌

November 16, 2022

With its pros. Price, versatility for a beginner. Lightweight, compact. Gives sufficient sharpness for shooting landscapes. Has some cons Constructive (plastic bayonet mount), soapiness of photographs, noisy AF, 5-blade aperture, etc.

Ada Kotarska ᠌

November 16, 2022

Different pros: If the Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II is seen as a beginner's test lens rather than a serious lens, then it has plenty of merit. Its cons: If you compare the Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II with medium and good lenses, then you can’t list all the shortcomings - there are too many.

Hayden Chew ᠌

October 29, 2022

Pros below: 1. optical qualities 2. the presence of a macro mode 3. Variable focus can be used for zooming, which is convenient for macro shooting Has cons: due to design features, it is not always mechanically compatible with optical extenders

Daniel Young Joong H ᠌

October 28, 2022

A passable lens for a beginner, it helps to understand what you want to change it to :] Quite a budget option, maybe even for a beginner, to understand what you want, I would recommend 18-135 STM.