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700D Kit lens upgrade

Started Jan 21, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Re: 700D Kit lens upgrade

groberts wrote:

My Sigma UWA lens and recently acquired Canon EF 300mm IS lens cover my top and bottom / wide angle requirements very well but I would now like to upgrade the 18-55 kit lens that originally came with the Canon 700D camera. Doesn't need to be Canon.

Apart from just better build quality I want to ensure it has:

  • Better manual focus with approximate focus distances marked (I thought this was standard until I got this kit lens);
  • Wider aperture say f2.8 or thereabouts?
  • Unless there's a downside I've overlooked, an EF equivalent rather than EFS - I use an internal Astronomik light pollution filter for astrophotography which fouls the longer back focus of an EFS lens; what is the operating difference between EF and EFS lenses?

Thanks, Graham

Does it have to be a zoom?

R2

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