Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is definitely a great buy if you are looking into starting up a youtube channel or just for making plain videos. The focus on this is very clear and its very easy to adjust on the camera or the utility up with canon for your PC. Videos are crisp and clear.

I bought this lens so that I could capture group pictures with in a close proximity to subjects. Great picture clarity . I am very pleased with this purchase

Good price The lens was compatiable to my camera and worked perfectly

This is a great product. I ordered it online without any problems.

Great short distance lens. Take beautiful pictures.

I bought this as a replacement for the kit lens that came with my Canon DSLR. Slightly larger zoom. Let's hope it lasts longer. I've gone through two kit lenses - both motors died unexpectedly.

I know zoom lenses need much more light but the convenience of 18-55 adds such a nice range without changing lens' all the time. The image stabilization is very smooth on video.

Got this to replace stock lens. Camera started giving me "Problem Communicating with Lens" issue on the stock lens, and even got a replacement used lens on auction a while back, but that one had the same issue. I thought maybe I'd try a new lens, thinking I can take it back if it's the camera. Sure enough, this lens looks awesome and the camera works fine with it. Let that be a lesson: your camera is only as good as your lens, and this lens is perfect close or far.

Bought this lens for my daughter that is just starting out with SLR cameras. She loves it.

I upgraded my original 18-55mm to the STM after I fell in love with the STM drive on the 40mm pancake. This upgrade had a number of useful advantages. The all internal focusing is an improvement over the external focusing of the previous model. The manual focusing control is a vast improvement over the previous model. The ability to manually focus when in Auto-focusing mode is worth the upgrade money alone. If you do video, you really want the STM focusing drive. It's very silent and focusing motor noises in a video is really annoying. This eliminates focusing noise while providing fast, accurate auto-focus. The image quality is very close to, if not identical to the previous kit lens. I have a strong preference for prime lenses; because, I demand more control over my depth of field and cannot afford L series lenses. The build quality is reasonable. This is, after all, an inexpensive kit lens. The mount in plastic. This lens will NOT fit on a full frame body. But, if you can afford a full framed body, what are you doing spending money on kit lenses? That doesn't make any sense. In short, the improvements are many and all of them very useful. The limitations of this lens is built into the nature of kit zoom lenses. It's a nice lens. But, because of the nature of zoom lenses, I don't use it that much. But, when I need it... it's there and does a good job. Just don't expect L series performance.

Bought this lens for my kids first SLR camera. Very affordable and works great.