Canon M6 II with kits lens or Body only + buy a lens? Locked

KevinRA wrote:

dan the man p wrote:

Let's also not forget that most copies of that lens are poor. You say you have a good copy, but most are not. The average copy is passable at the wide end when stopped down but much worse at the long end, and soft everywhere wide open.

Do we have any evidence for "most" ??

I've had two copies and two of them OK. Plenty other people say the same. And no doubt many more people with issues post than those who don't have issues.

My copy is pretty good between 15-35mm at f.5.6 and perfectly fine at f/8 45mm with a tiny contrast boost and that's with pixel peeping. And fine for A4 prints / screen viewing even wide open everywhere.

It's kind of hard to say whether a copy is good without something to compare it with. "OK" and "fine" are subjective. I'm basing "most" on the number of people who say they've had to go through multiple copies to get a good one, where the judgment of "good" is usually based on objective comparisons with other lenses. In my use case, the softness at the long end really stands out in portraits, to the extent that faces look like focus was missed slightly. Comparing it with my two copies of the 18-55 (which itself is not a world-beater of a lens by any stretch), the difference is very noticeable, even when stopped down and the 18-55 remains wide open. I made a thread about this last year if one wants to search.

In any case, I don't think even a "good" copy of the 15-45 is going to come close to making the most out of that 32 MP sensor. If one is going to spend their money on the top-end body, they should really invest in other lenses to make it worth the money they spent. I don't think this is a controversial opinion...