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abhu
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Location: Hungary
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Review Date: Jul 5, 2017
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $50.00
| Rating: 7
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Cheap, lightweighted, good IQ
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not so much for its price
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Liked that thing very much because it did the job. Not that very sharp but it was quite good.
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 Jul 5, 2017
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Bjorns
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Location: Iceland
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Jan 31, 2011
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ray_lam5
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Registered: Sep 18, 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 71
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Review Date: Dec 23, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $50.00
| Rating: 9
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light, small, sharp, fast focusing, cheap
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slow max arperture, plastic
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Got this free with my d40x and must say i was pleasantly surprised how sharp it was. I dont like zooms much so have now decided to stick with this for holidays or trips. It is sharp and light and will deliver excellent quality providing you can use it in good light or with a flash.
keep one in your bag.
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Dec 23, 2008
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Mayank B
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Registered: Jul 30, 2007
Location: India
Posts: 210
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Review Date: Aug 20, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Weight, size, price, sharpness, color, contrast
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None, really, for the price...
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A bit of history:
I quit the Canon camp earlier this year. Had an EOS 350D, got tired of the very poor performance of the EF-S 18-55 kit lens (distortions, corner softness, focussing errors, poor colors and contrast and cheap build) and later upgraded to an EF 17-40L which was great in many ways but had unacceptable and pronounced left corner softness at 17mm. Sold that as well and got the new Canon EF 18-55 IS lens. It was nicer IQ-wise than both the earlier lenses but with the amount of problems I faced with the first two (and the amount of money I spent), I had lost faith in Canon by then and sold-off all my equipment.
Now the review:
I recently bought a Nikon D40 (got a great price). My first results with this lens were astonishing!! At f7.1, corner sharpness, distortions, vignetting, contrast and rendition of colours were too good to be true and even upon pixel peeping the results (raw files), found nothing really to complain about. In IQ and IQ alone, this lens seemed way better than Canon EF-S 18-55, EF-S 18-55 IS and EF 17-40L (three lenses I've tried).
Am not going to rave about build quality but it is better than the Canon kit lenses. It is a bit slow to focus and hunts in low contrast situations but I can live with that. Left corners are noticeably soft at 55mm f8 onwards (have noticed this in two copies), however, left corner softness at 55mm is acceptable at f7.1. Doesn't handle flare too well but I am careful. Purple fringing can easily be rectified in PP. Vignetting has never been an issue for me with this lens.
Highly recommended, to say the least.
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Aug 20, 2008
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fkhfineart
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Registered: Feb 16, 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 377
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Review Date: Apr 28, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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worth every cent.
close focus for some macros
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none for this price
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keep it for the price, you will always find a use.
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Apr 28, 2008
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veroman
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Registered: Aug 19, 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 4445
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Review Date: Mar 26, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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• Sharpness
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• Vibration Reduction
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These are comments about the VR version of this lens, which I've just received and intend to use with a D40x for travel purposes along with its tele-companion, the 55-200 VR. I tested the 18-55 VR, though, on my D2x.
The lens' optical quality is, in a word, excellent. For the price, it's remarkable, edge-to-edge. Hard to believe, actually.
The D2x is notoriously fussy about lenses and will show up any wrinkles, warts or other signs of mediocre glass. Well, I've viewed and viewed and viewed and compared the 18-55 to some of my best glass, including the excellent f/2.8 35-70. The worst thing I can report about the 18-55 is a bit of CA in very high contrast situations, but in an amount that's easily correctable in post-processing. Hey, I've got far more expensive lenses that generate CA in these situations!
The 18-55 VR appears to be at its best at f/5.6 to f/11 between about 20mm and 45mm. The extremes are quite acceptable if not very, very good; they're just not quite as crisp and defined as the middle territory (when viewed at 100%). I also compared it to my excellent 18-35 f/3.5-4.5. The 18-35 is ever-so-slightly sharper at 18mm and 25mm, has less tendency to lose small details in highlights, and color seems a tad more accurate, but that's about it. The 18-55 VR holds up quite well against this more than twice-as-costly lens.
I would not hesitate to keep the 18-55 VR in my D2x bag much less use it with the D40x. Highly, highly recommended.
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Mar 26, 2008
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