Sigma 777945

Pros: Great Walk Around Lens for about $300.

Cons: Slight color and detail degradation. Low light focus occasionally gives trouble.

The Bottom Line: I really love this lens. It shoots really good pictures and is easy to use. I'd highly recommend it.

Review: The Sigma 18-200 3.5-6.3 lens is a great all around lens. Some have denounced superzoom lenses as lower quality. The truth is that an all-in-one lens has tradeoffs (lower image quality and color aberrancy) for ease of use. I recently got a Sigma ...

Pros: Price, versatility, macro capability

Cons: speed, no image stabilization (yet)

The Bottom Line: If you are new to DSLR photography, this may be the best lens to get you started. It may be the only lens you will ever need.

Review: Recently I celebrated my 50th birthday and my lovely wife gave me “carte blanche” (well at least under $2500) to purchase a professional quality DSLR and lens. I ended up choosing the Canon 30D (please see my separate review on this camera, ...

Pros: Small, compact. Good optics for such a wide range

Cons: Soft corners at 18mm wide open. Front-focuses at 200mm

The Bottom Line: Optically on par with kit lens, despite much larger range. Optically better than Tamron version. To autofocus at 200mm, I have to pre-focus at 135mm.

Review: Note on 9/2/2008: A year after submitting this review, I'm noticing that it now appears under the wrong product listing. I wrote this review for the lens in CANON mount, but my text has somehow migrated into the product listing for PENTAX mount. This ...