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Largely a waste of money

Started Jan 17, 2019 | User reviews thread
Rock and Rollei Senior Member • Posts: 2,916
Re: Largely a waste of money
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quadrox wrote:

fishy wishy wrote:

There are a lot of 18-55 lenses, you need to state which generation it is. Even its year would help.

That would have been the 18-55 that came with the 550D, from 2010 I think - I don't remember more details than that

And the point was not to say that the 17-55 has bad mage quality per see, although it did not entirely live up to my (very high) standards. The point is more that for the extra money over the 18-55 kit lens, you get very little in return. Most people will be far better off with the 18-55.

I've never owned the 17-55, but I did borrow one for a couple of months some years ago. And I agree with you. Sure, if you pixel peep it's better. If you're shooting wide open, it's better. But if you're shooting at f8, you'll be hard pushed to spot any real world difference in the end product between this and any but the very first 18-55 (which was a dog).

In the end, I bought the 15-85 for crop, as it has a much more usable focal length range and to me was at least as sharp as the 17-55.

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