Canon 18-300?

[neil bryant]

I was just talking to this guy,and he said he had a canon 500D and a canon 18-300 lens.

Well i've searched all over the net for this lense and i can't see that one exists,does anyone know if there is such a lense?
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D90
Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED IF AF-S VR
70-300 vr
AF-S DX 35mm f1.8
SB 400
Panasonic TZ10

 

[Lemming51]

I was just talking to this guy,and he said he had a canon 500D and a canon 18-300 lens.

Well i've searched all over the net for this lense and i can't see that one exists,does anyone know if there is such a lense?

He misspoke, there is no 18-300 lens, Canon or otherwise. The closest to that are the Tamron 18-270 and Sigma 18-250.

If it's a Canon lens, it's either the old discontinued EF 28-200 f/3.5-5.6 USM, the massive and expensive EF 28-300 f/3.5-5.6L IS USM, or (most likely) EF-S 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 IS. He might have been thinking of the "35mm equivalent", in which case the EF-S 18-200 is "equivalent" to 28-320.

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[Eugene Powers]

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Eugene

The only time a smaller sensor with the same pixel count is superior to a larger sensor (aka higher pixel density) is when you are focal-length limited.

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[michael242]

considering the camera he has, i'm guessing he has the 18-200 and maybe is doing the aps-c conversion for the long end, which is a bit above 300.
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