I recently bought a Canon t8i 18-55mm kit, and was wondering if that lens will at the least be good enough for some night photography. I'm very new so any tips or information would be greatly appreciated.
It depends what you mean by night photography ? Are you referring to something like cityscapes at night (a lot of light from buildings, bridges etc) or star photography (as dark as possible, little to no ambient light or light pollution) ?
For cityscapes it should work OK with a decent tripod and appropriate shutter speeds and ISO settings.
For stars, I think you might struggle (unless you have a tracker, which I would guess you don't). The Canon APS-C cameras tend to be a bit noisy above ISO 1600, and because it is a crop you should use something like Rule of 200 for the slowest shutter speed.
So, at 18mm, you might use settings like ISO 1600, f4, and a shutter speed of 200 / 18 = ±10-12 seconds. This is not going to give you enough light to capture much (without a tracker). This, of course, assumes that this cheap kit lens can capture decent stars (I have no idea) without lots of coma distortion.
There is a huge amount of information in this forum (so use the search feature) and also on websites like clarkvision.com, so do some reading to get familiar with the basics of "night" photography.
Colin
