Hi! In this video, I’m going to review this the Canon 10-18 mm budget wide-angle lens.
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The fact that Canon have decided to make this is a great thing because it opens up ultra
wide-angle photography to a new audience with this budget lens. When you first strap and
ultra-wide angle lens to your camera, it’s an exciting moment when you first look through
the viewfinder and see the new perspective that it brings to the world. This Canon 10-18
mm lens really picks up nicely where the 18-55 mm kit lens leaves off at the wide-angle.
It is the perfect accompaniment to the lens for your Canon EFS crop sensor camera. Wide-angle
photography really opens up some creative possibilities in the realms of landscape photography
where you might want a really nice wide perspective or architecture where you in a tight space
and you want to get the whole building in the scene, it’s good for that. Also used
by pretty much every estate agent going to make rooms, when they’re selling a house,
look bigger. On paper, this lens is excellent. It has that wide angle, is relatively cheap,
is light, which I think is a good thing, it has a front element that doesn't rotate when
you zoom or focus which is brilliant thing for when you’re taking landscape images
and you want to attach something like a circular polariser to the front because you don't want
that rotating. It has image stabilisation, which is a good thing for video. It also has
the year Canon STM focus system which, on this lens, is particularly good and it’s
absolutely silent….. see silent. So, all in, is this the perfect lens? Er… no. In
my written reviews over my website, I give products that I review a star rating and one
of those star ratings is Joy Factor. It is designed to describe the feeling you get when
you first use a new product. That fizz, the excitement, the desire to use it over and
over again and that unexplainable feeling that just makes you truly love a product.
Now this lens does not have that. It is just a bit yuck, makes you want to throw it away…
and drop it on the floor…hopefully it’s not broken because I use it for my vlogs,
if you haven't seen it. It just leaves you feeling flat and the images it creates are
just okay and nothing more. The overall feeling is just mmm. The downside of this lens, includes
the plastic mount, which not everybody will be happy with, the simply dreadful distortion
that this lens produces particularly when you're at 10 to 12 mm because anything towards
the edge of the frame is just going to be skewed out of sharp focus to the point where
it just looks like the image is melted. The lens is also quite slow at between f4.5 and
5.6. That adjusts as you zoom in and out, which can make exposure tricky in certain
circumstances, particularly with video. I’ve also found the image stabilisation not particularly
useful. With stills, the image stabilisation will let you get away with something like
1/20 of a second. That’s partly because of the wide angle but even so the aperture
is still be around 4.5-5.6. That's still going to be quite dark in lowlight situations which
means you’re still going to need quite a significant ISO boost. So it’s really not
helping you out that much. As I mentioned, I’ve been using this lens in my vlogs and
if you haven't seen them yet, I’ve done two so far. I’ve put a link for you up there
and down in the description. Please check them out and if you enjoy them, please do
subscribe to the channel. What I’ve found is the type of movements I’ve been making
during the vlogs, the IS on this lens isn't helping me out one bit. If you're walking
around, it’s moving up and down a bit, it doesn't help that out. The only time it does
really seem to help is when I'm sort of making very small movements in the camera and if
I’m trying to get a stationary shot and hand-holding, it will smooth that out. But
I don’t really see that as a benefit over a wide angle lens that doesn't have an image
stabilisation because in post you can remove it with some warp stabilisation and it’s
really not getting me any better shots then when I was getting when I was using a different
wide-angle lens doesn't have IS. With all that being said, I'm not actually saying don't
buy this lens because it can solve a number of problems that you may currently be faced
with with your gear. That’s especially the case when you look at the price of about hundred
£80 in the UK about $270 in the US for a new version. It will still do a job for you
as it does for me with the vlogs. I just think there are better options out there if you
are in the market for a wide-angle lens for your Canon EFS camera. The top choice would
be the Canon 10-22 mm which really is an L lens just without the red ring. It’s very
similar to the Canon L lens 17-40 on a full frame and produces very similar image quality
to that lens. The Sigma 10-20 mm is also another option. That does also suffer from quite bit
of distortion. On the second-hand market, they can now be picked up extremely cheap.
I would love to hear from you if you've been using this lens or what other wide angle lens
are you using and what kind of results by you are getting. Please leave a comment down,
I’d really appreciate it. Like I said, please subscribe to the channel where there are videos
going up every Wednesday and every Sunday. I think it can really help you out.
I’ll see you on another video very soon. I’m Adam. This is First Man Photography......
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