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Kit Lens Comparison; RF-S 18-45 vs EF-M 15-45, Charts, Imatest, Design

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Re: Kit Lens Comparison; RF-S 18-45 vs EF-M 15-45, Charts, Imatest, Design

musicmaster wrote:

RLight wrote:

18-150 is wayyyy more useful.

as the posters are saying, no tried and true 24 mm, ouch

Depends on your shooting style. Looking through my travel shots, probably 25-30% are shot at a 24mm equiv between my cameras over the years. While I love UWA lenses, I also hate changing lenses, especially when traveling light and would rather have a single lens that covers most of my needs on me than switching back and forth between 2.

My 15-45 was a pretty good copy too.

The other thing, at least in the APS-C space, Nikon has the really good 16-50, Sony has a 16-50 PZ and Fuji has a 15-45 (which is even wider due to the smaller 1.5x crop). 18-45 isn't wide enough or long enough to be that useful. It's also 2/3 stop slower at the wide end than any of the other lenses and larger than them all to boot.

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