Satisfied

Pierre Dumas wrote:

I bought it new for $265 and am very satisfied. I use it with Canon EOS 1200D and work only with RAW files and the results are good to very good! I can't say excellent because poor peripheral sharpness appears, sometimes more, sometimes less and it's kind of unpredictable!
I'm surprised that so cheap lens has internal focusing which is especially fit for use with polarizing filter! Very good for the money and I recommend it!
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PDE

I shoot with both full-frame kits and APS-C. Lenses like this 10-18 EFS are the reason that I still enjoy APS-C bodies. It is small, lightweight, stabilized, inexpensive, and provides optical quality above its price point. In fact, the newer generations of EFS lenses are all superb in this respect, offering a very practical alternative to their full-frame equivalents in the real world. While they don't offer wide maximum apertures like their f2.8 counterparts, that disadvantage is, for many circumstances, offset by the aforementioned advantages, and compensated by the much higher ISO capabilities of the newest APS-C bodies.

While this lens enjoyed quite a bit of use in my kit for the first couple of years of ownership, I admit that I do use it somewhat less in the years after replacing my standard APS-C zoom -- the 18-135 STM -- with the superior 15-85 EFS, that little bit of extra width satisfying my wide angle needs pretty well for general shooting. When I want to go wider, I sometimes find myself reaching for the Rokinon 8mm fisheye, a superb and affordable addition to any APS-C kit (although learning to use it effectively is an absolute prerequisite.) But I would consider the 10-18 EFS fundamental to any Canon APS-C shooter's lens library.