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Sharp, but too bulky and heavy

Started Sep 2, 2019 | User reviews thread
Jerry-astro
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Umm, no, not really

Pan50 wrote:

To each their own. I don’t walk around town with the 16-55 mounted on my camera, it isn’t a street lens by any means. It needs a tripod. Excellent landscape lens.

Like others, I really have to disagree with your tripod comment. I shoot far more often without than with a tripod using that lens, and it’s plenty fast enough to yield perfectly reasonable shutter speeds for handheld use in decent light. It’s not a “stealth” lens, so perhaps not the best choice for street photography. However, the vast majority of the times I use it, it’s handheld, and it’s fast enough to yield manageable shutter speeds (particularly with the help of IBIS) even in somewhat diminished light. And yes, it definitely is an excellent landscape lens, but far from being only usable for that purpose.

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