This lens produces awesome results even for beginners. The image stabailzation is a big part of taking successful pictures. It's easy to use, especially in your camera's auto mode.

easy to use - has image stabilization

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 quality of a Canon DSLR.

Wonderful lens, takes great pictures. I don't have to switch lenes any more from short distance to telephoto, rearrange to focus.

photographing special occausions; photographing weddings; indoor outdoor sport activities

A great walkabout and travel lens at a very useful focal length range, this one produces amazing pictures, needless to say. The zoom range is exceptional too. It also features a built-in Optical Image Stabilizer with automatic panning detection feature. A class Canon lens.

I owned this lense before. Unfortunately, the barrel should be locked while in carrying mode. Otherwise can be fragile fully extended.

Easily Interchangeable; Fast / accurate auto-focus; Ideal all around lense

Lens Creep

This is a great do-it-all lens covering probably the most frequently used focal lengths that the majority of people will use. Its not a substitute for a good prime lens as the compromises of a superzoom mean a trade off in overall sharpness, however this can only be seen in extreme enlagements and...

Easily Interchangeable; Quick Focus; Rugged; Strong Construction

Heavy

All other superzooms I tested are better: Nikkor 18-200 VR, Sigma 18-200 OS, Sony E 18-200 OSS, PanasonicLeica 14-150 OIS

zoom reach

IQ

I love this lens, it is sharp, fast focus and accurate. The best lens ever if we comparative it with Tamron and Sigma. If you are looking for one lens for all purpose this is it. I am very satisfied with this lens.

Fast / accurate auto-focus; Nice Bokeh; Sharp

NONE

18-200mm Canon lens, it's what you expect from the biggest company. I was very surprised when I got it out of the box, it is a lot heavier than expected, which brings along the problem when you have the lens about halfway and look down or up than it opens or closes under it's own weight which is a...

Brilliant lens to whoever wants a lens that can perform at wide range of lengths, I would strongly recommend.

Build quality; Image Stabilization; good range of length so know need to change lenses

Weight; movement in the lens because of weight; price