Review on Black Canon Rebel XS DSLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens (OLD MODEL) by Bhavin Kalant ᠌

The lens served faithfully for 5 years. During this time, absolutely nothing loosened or broke, but I handled it quite carefully and never dropped it. The main advantage of this lens is good sharpness in the range of 25-45 mm, especially at a covered aperture, complemented by a good stabilizer, which allows you to get excellent shots up to 1/18 second without raising the ISO to heaven. At the same time, at 17 mm there is a significant drop in sharpness at the edges of the frame at an open aperture, and at 55 mm the lens starts to soften, which, however, does not interfere with getting good pictures. I consider its design to be the main drawback of the lens: even with an absolutely sharp frame in almost ideal conditions, the picture looks cheap, which gives out a photograph taken on a whale. It feels like looking at the image through the dirty glass of the store, distorting small details. Similarly, the color rendering of the whale leaves much to be desired: the colors are successfully stretched in Photoshop, in the end the result is extremely good, but in the original frame they are always faded and boring. Bottom line: with a competent approach and good color correction skills in Photoshop, you can get great pictures from a whale that will collect likes on social networks and cause the envy of fellow photographers. The only problem is that it took me personally 5 years to achieve this level and Margulis' book on color grading is 600 pages, which is clearly too much for a novice photographer who wants to get pretty pictures by spending over $500 on a camera and $100 on a lens. Therefore, I would advise you to take 50mm f / 1.8 as a lens that can do "beautiful", and leave the whale for those cases when you need to shoot some kind of landscape at a closed aperture or a group of friends.