New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

[Fr1so]

Hi there,

Canon has introduced a new lens for the crop body's:

EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

Ans it is very sharp priced, it will be around 269 euro's.

I think it will be a good lens. Better than the EF-S 10-22?

[Woolley]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

I think it will be a good lens. Better than the EF-S 10-22?

I doubt it, 4.5-5.6 against 3.5-4.5 for the 22. Sounds like a (significantly) lower priced lens and therefore reasonable to assume lower quality optics. Wide zoom for everyman as against the near-L of the bigger brother. Doesn't mean it won't be a good lens, but aimed at a different market sector.

[Fr1so]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

Which market sector are you aiming at?

This lens has IS, your 10-22 has no IS.

[Woolley]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

True, but you've got to get some serious shaking going on to need IS at 10mm...

[Fr1so]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

True, but you've got to get some serious shaking going on to need IS at 10mm...

Can you hold a camera+lens complety still? ... without a little tremble or shake

[nickorando]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

What IS does in this case is allow you to use a smaller apeture if you need without encountering shake, which is very useful at times.

[Woolley]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

Can you hold a camera+lens complety still? ... without a little tremble or shake

For the type of photography you're likely to use this sort of lens, I'd say generally yes. 1/10th sec reciprocal and if I'm going to want that slow or slower I'll be using a tripod or some sort of support.

[Robert Scott]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

I have deleted posts from this thread to remove a post which was in poor taste.

[S_J_P]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

For the type of photography you're likely to use this sort of lens, I'd say generally yes. 1/10th sec reciprocal and if I'm going to want that slow or slower I'll be using a tripod or some sort of support.

Whilst I concur that generally IS is somewhat unnecessary for UWA lenses, it can be useful for anyone using the cameras video features, and since this is a STM lens it's quite possible people will be using it for video. Also, the general reciprocal-rule quoted is "1/Focal Length or 1/60, whichever is greater" thus you're still limited (according to the reciprocal rule) to 1/60th and not 1/10th so the IS may we'll be useful.

[Woolley]

Re: New: Canon EF-S 10-18 f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

Whilst I concur that generally IS is somewhat unnecessary for UWA lenses, it can be useful for anyone using the cameras video features, and since this is a STM lens it's quite possible people will be using it for video.

Now that's something I didn't know and hadn't even considered. What a wonderfully informative place this forum is.