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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 3.3 inches | | Product Width: | 3.1 inches | | Product Height: | 3.1 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.85 pounds | | Package Length: | 5.43 inches | | Package Width: | 4.17 inches | | Package Height: | 3.94 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.28 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 71 reviews |
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233 of 238 found the following review helpful:
 Good utility lens Apr 30, 2009
By T. Norris
Reading reviews is a crap shoot. You know nothing about the reviewer or the use of the product. That said, I am assuming you are not a struggling professional trying to shoot a high quality, tight-budget job. You are a user looking for one lens to carry to cover a wide range of service.
I'm a pro. I have a many bodies and L lenses to use.
I carry an XSI with THIS Sigma 18-200mm non OS lens just about everywhere I go. It is a great vacation tool, where most pix are shown in a digital frame or are never going to be more than 4x6.
Yes, the MTF is not great (simply: contrast across the lens), there is some chromatic fringing and watch out! the lens hood will cause vignetting and shadows with a flash at wide angle. I've been using this lens since it was released in early '05.
It's a $300 lens. Does it compare to a $1500 L lens? Yeah - very badly. So what? The first rule of photography is get the picture. Missing the shot while changing lenses is not photography. Is this the preferred lens in my arsenal? No. But for general non-client, daylight, non-sports shooting, it's the one I'll probably be using. I prefer the non-optical stabilzed version - less complexity.
To help you weigh this review: I use five professional (5D, 1D) and several prosumer (40D, 50D, XTI, XSI) bodies and nine L lenses, plus a slew of others.
Photo tip: night shooting of foreground against backround (done a lot with this lens!): typical situation: girl on beach in front of sunset. Manually set exposure to flash shutter speed, aperature & ISO to get background. Turn flash on to expose and meter foreground. You'll get some great "how did you do that?" pix. All the MTF, abberetion and linearity issues will mean nothing, because you got a picture no one else could and th L doesn't really add anything, because you want depth of field here.
Thanks for reading my review.
91 of 92 found the following review helpful:
Great Lens for the Price! Jun 25, 2005
By S. Kanter
I disagree with the previous poster. I think this lens is pretty great.
The quality is exceptional for a lens of this price and range.
There seems to be a controversy regarding how focal lengths of lenses are measured; from what I've read, the lens does go to 200mm if measured at infinity.
In the real world, the lens takes fine pics as long as you have enough light. The size and weight is perfect for a walk-around lens. My Rebel XT with this lens (and the Hakuba hand grip) is a perfect fit, and feels great to carry around and shoot. To get better optical quality at this range, you would need to get a few lenses that each cost a lot more. There is nothing quite like this, except for Tamaron's 18-200, which I hear doesn't compare favorably to the Sigma.
It seems that Sigma has quality control issues, so I would buy
the lens from a local dealer that has a return policy. Test the lens, and if you don't think it's up to par, return it for another.
63 of 68 found the following review helpful:
 THE 'one and only' travelling lens. Sep 25, 2005
By TheTeh
"TheTeh.Com Photography"
3 stars because of:
1) soft corners at 18mm (f3.5)
2) vignetting at 18mm (f3.5)
3) lens creep (self extension of lens barrel while walking) if not retracted/lock at 18mm
This lens has the most useful range one can possibly have. It has become my only lens for short travelling trip when I don't want hassel of changing lens. I took only this lens with my Canon XT to Amsterdam (5days) without missing my other lenses at all. Here are some photos taken with this lens in my website:
http://www.theteh.com/html/london_street_.html
http://www.theteh.com/html/croatia.html
http://www.theteh.com/html/index1.html
For this price range (other than the Tamron 18-200) there is no other lenses that can compete!
42 of 44 found the following review helpful:
My choice for traveling Jun 30, 2006
By ShutterFlash
I got this lens a day before taking off for an eight day trip, and shot over 1800 photos with it. Though not the fastest lens out there, it did everything I wanted it to, both in the wide angle and the telephoto. I think I put it through a pretty thorough test over that week, and have these comments:
1. If I can only take one lens, this would be it.
2. I missed not having a macro feature, but I got close enough with the telephoto to make up for it in some cases.
3. The auto focus works fine in normal and bright lighting, but in dim lighting (like in a museum) it became confused and I used the manual focus option instead.
4. This is my third Sigma lens, and I haven't had any quality control problems with any of them.
5. I have no experience with high end Canon lenses for my Canon DSLR so I can't make a comparison, but I'm fully satisfied with the optics of this lens.
Excellent value and versatility.
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Love the zoom range! And, the photos are sharp! Mar 13, 2007
By David A. Morehead
This lens is not perfect, but for $350 dollars it is a great bargain!
I love my L lenses but I get frustrated having to switch lens all the time.
With this lens, I only have to carry my camera. Not the heavy camera bag. I love being able to use wide angle and then immediately switch to 200mm (300mm on the Rebel XT) within a second! The lens is light and is a pleasure to carry around all day.
It has a hard time focusing in low light so it is best to use outside when you have a decent amount of light.
I don't like that you cannot override automatic focus. That is one feature I really enjoy on my L lens. If the camera isn't focusing correctly you have to switch to manual before you can manually focus.
I am very surprised on how sharp the photos are. I wasn't expecting anything great in such a low priced lens. I am pleasantly surprised. I may be carrying around this lens a lot more than my 70-200 L and 17-40 L. I have missed many good shots due to the time it takes to change lenses. Also, every time you change a lens you take a chance of adding more specs (dust) to your photos.
It is kind of slow at the long end of the zoom range. (6.3 at 200mm) But, I don't mind it when there is a decent amount of light available.
It is an excellent walk around lens. It is so nice not to be carrying around a bag full of lens all day. My shoulder is thanking me already. Since it is so light, my neck doesn't hurt at the end of the day.
If I need the utmost quality, I will of course use my L lens. But, in the mean time this lens will suffice. I am having a lot of fun with it. I will post some shots soon.
I was kind of surprised that there are only 7 sample shots available here on Amazon. I promise I will add more so people can have a better representation of what this lens can do.
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