"Covering 18mm to 200mm provides a huge amount of versatility with this lens. If you need to travel light and can only bring one lens, this might be perfect for you because it was for me.

Gary Wolstenholme reviews the Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, a popular all-in-one lens covering a massive 11x zoom range.

Good optical performance for a superzoom; Excellent image stabiliser; Decent build quality; Fast focusing

Zoom creep; Barrel distortion at 18mm; No lens hood supplied

Great lens, awesome Wide Angle & Zoom! Perfect all round lens. Smifu is definitely the cheapest place by far as I did tons of research before I brought it. It also got delivered in 48hours!

This was the kit lens I got with my 60D. I loved it at first but after a few months started to be unimpressed with its sharpness. It is not a bad lens just not great. I would have been disappointed if I paid retail price for it.

Great zoom range, multi purpose lens; will do most anything a beginner photographer would want to do

zoom creeps really really bad I have to keep my hand on the zoom ring to stop it from moving while shooting; May be my lens though as it has got a lot looser since I first started using it; If I point it at the ground it falls down to about 170mm; quite soft, can be slow to focus in lower light

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. A high-end kit option for EOS 50D owners, it probably owes its existence to the phenomenal success of Nikon's 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR Nikkor.

I början var jag väldigt nöjd, bilderna är fortfarande helt OK, men ett stort minus för "slappheten" och vad värre är att det inte går att justera över huvud taget...

Relativt lätt; praktisk "reseobjektiv" med brännvidd 18-200 mm (man slipper transportera en hel uppsättning objektiv); relativt bra skärpa även vid mulet väder; mycket bra i skuggan och så klart priset...

Spärren urholkades efter ca 1 års användning så att objektivet "åker ut" ofrivilligt vid minsta skakning; Trögheten i zoomen försvann också med tiden så glöm Makro fotografering! Lämnade in den hos Canon för justering men ack nej, objektivet saknade "justeringsskruvar" (3 st.

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.

No lens in this catagory is perfect, you have to accept each lens shortcomings...this lens works best with the canon auto focus system hands down, tamron and others take forever to focus and often frustrate. While not perfect...clearly works better than others.

Consistent Output; Fast / accurate auto-focus

Heavy; Lens Creep

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.

Meets my expectations with ease. Loving it.

Solid; it has a stabilization feature; allows a degree of freedom; quick response time and the focus is quick too

No issues