very good lens, very sharp and smooth ,great carry around lens, leave it on my canon 500d always unless want the 55-250is for distance.

The Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS is an older lens that lacks STM focusing capability, but is still a step up from your D-SLR's standard kit lens.

Very sharp; Long zoom range; Optically stabilized

Lacks STM capability; Some distortion

I read the reviews and thought I'd take a chance. You certainly get what you pay for. I won't ever use this lens and now I need to save up for a real lens before I can make money with my camera. Disappointment does not begin to describe my feelings.

Easily Interchangeable; Consistent Output; Durable

Only for baby pics; Lens Creep; Poor in Low Light

I purchased this lens for my SLR camera and i must say that i did try a few different lens and this 1 seemed to come out on top, It has a more imprssive exposure than most of its competiters and helps give the crisp and clean effect most people want from they're pictures.

Brilliant clear exposure

no diadvantages yet

Bad lens.

erratic AF; awful CA; really short sharpening

good use range; good color; fast AF ***

A great EF-S APS sized zoom lens that covers a mild wide angle to telephoto range. The 4 stops IS marketing fluff is true. It tested it down to 1/4 of a second and the images come out crisp and clean as against IS being turned off where camera shake and blur really shows.

A wonderful image range of 18-135mm (29-216mm), REAL Image Stabilization rated at 4 stops; 3 stops rating on other reviews, but hey, 3 to 4 stops is great feature, The difference between a non IS and IS on a 70-200mm white lens is over a thousand dollars.

It looks like a plain cheap cylinder, not a sexy lusty lens; It doesn't demand attention as the more sexy L and white lenses, Soft at the wide angle end, for the pixel conscious; Set to F8 and sharpness improves dramatically

Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at this lightweight 7.5x superzoom lens for EF-S compatible Canon cameras with Image Stabilisation.

Good resolution at optimum apertures; Lightweight design; Effective Image Stabiliser

Chromatic Aberrations at 18mm; Barrel distortion at 18mm; No lens hood supplied

Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at this lightweight 7.5x superzoom lens for EF-S compatible Canon cameras with Image Stabilisation.

Good resolution at optimum apertures; Lightweight design; Effective Image Stabiliser

Chromatic Aberrations at 18mm; Barrel distortion at 18mm; No lens hood supplied

My experience with Canon's lenses over the past 15 years have been nothing but excellence. And, they keep on improving their lenses, as well.

Light; Image Stabilizer(off or on); quick and responsive; FAST! Wide and Zoom

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Bundled often as a kit with the Canon EOS 7D and 50D, this APS-C format zoom ($450, street) is for shooters who want more than a bare-bones 18–55mm kit lens without paying $575 (street) for the extra reach of Canon's 18–200mm IS superzoom.