Review on Canon EF-S 10-18mm IS STM Lens: Exceptional Wide-Angle Performance and Image Stabilization by Bong Cha ᠌

The main impressions are extremely positive. I really want to say WOW! Canon managed to make a sharp, cheap and fast shirik with a stub. Unfortunately, Nikon doesn’t have this (I use both systems, which is why I’m sad). I will briefly compare 10-18 is with a number of widths, including those available at the time of writing the review (sigma 10-20 4-5.6 for Nikon and Canon, Canon 10-22). I will go through all the most popular widths: 1) Tokina 116 2.8. It is more aperture and is preferable for indoor reporting. To shoot moving objects, you need aperture, the stub will not help here. But otherwise, tokina is much heavier, larger, more expensive. In the open, it is not super sharp and has HA around the edges. In the case of landscapes and shooting still objects, a wide stub is preferable to a high aperture. 2) canon 10-22. It's big and expensive, less harsh and not entirely silent. It has only two pluses relative to 10-18 - a slightly higher aperture ratio (3.5 - 4.5) and a slightly longer zoom (up to 22mm). There is another plus for beginner pros - 10-22 looks much more solid, which will help in attracting customers. 3) sigma 10-20. I didn’t like the 3.5 at all - it is more expensive than the 4-5.6, but at the same time it is less sharp on similar apertures and has huge 82mm filters, which are expensive and are not available everywhere. Version 4-5.6 is good, the price is similar to 10-18, the aperture is a little higher, the zoom is a little further (20 mm versus 18) and in general not much larger in size. Sharpness is similar to 10-18 (a little lower, but not critical). Yes, and she has no stub. 4) others - sigma 8-16 wins in zoom (8mm latitude is awesome!), But its size and protruding front lens scare many away, the 12-24 tokina is also very good, but more expensive than 10-18. 5) Moreover, comparing with Elka 17-40 4l, I can honestly say that 10-18is turns out to be . sharper! Surprising but true. A small crop width is sharper than an elk in ff (especially at the edges). I note that 10-18, for me, has a pleasant color rendition (I have tried so far only on the 50d and 600d I have). Summarizing the above - canon 10-18is is an excellent super-wide. If you are looking for a wide angle on a canon crop, then you will find it in this glass. Thanks to 10-18, Canon has built its line of cheap stm glasses (10-18, 18-55, 55-250). And the line came out chic, all three glasses are sharp, have a good stub, weigh little and are extremely cheap solutions.