Excerpt: Designed to provide a wide zoom range in a compact and lightweight form factor, Canon's EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS telephoto zoom lens can only be used with cameras that
Excerpt: A popular all-in-one lens covering a massive 11x zoom range that costs around £410 and includes a silent ultrasonic focusing motor and image stabilisation.
Pros: Good optical performance for a superzoom, Excellent image stabiliser, Decent build quality, Fast focusing
Cons: Zoom creep, Barrel distortion at 18mm, No lens hood supplied
Excerpt: Originally posted 2011-06-12 on Optyczne.pl There are a lot of 18-2xx mm class lenses available on the market.
Cons: average image quality on the edge of the frame,, chromatic aberration corrected weakly,, significant distortion,, huge vignetting,, distinct astigmatism at the shortes...
Excerpt: Priced at $780, the Canon EF-S 18-200mm IS is an archetypal vacation lens, offering the convenience of an 11x optical superzoom point-and-shoot digicam with the image
Excerpt: Though the bayonet fitting is the same, an EF-S lens cannot be attached to a Canon EOS EF mount camera because EF-S units recess about 3mm deeper into the camera.
Excerpt: A 29-320mm equivalent on APS-C Canon EOS models, this lens ($700, street) boasts the broadest zoom range of any interchangeable optic from Canon to date: 11X.
Summary: Canon’s EF-S 18-200mm IS is quite simply the lens many Canon DSLR owners have been waiting for. It equips EF-S compatible models with a massive 11.1x optical zoom...
Pros: Enormously flexible 11.1x optical range., Effective Image Stabilisation., Lock control to prevent barrel from extending., End section doesn’t rotate when focusing.
Cons: Noticeable barrel distortion at 18mm., Softness and fringing in corners., No USM focusing or full-time MF., Some creep on the barrel.
Conclusion: Canon had a somewhat weird timing regarding the release of their EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS. It is extremely difficult to design such a lens to start with and more so...