Best Zoom Lenses for Novice

i bought this lens for my canon eos xti and used it at a family wedding for the first time.

this lens is great for portraits or product shots where you want to focus on one subject and have the foreground & background blurred out.

this is an awesome lens from canon for your dslr - it partners nicely with the kit lens.

i realize that this is by far not the greatest lens, but for the price it is to me, a newcomer to the digital slr world, this lens great, as far as price in concerned.

i am using this lens on my e-510 digital camera.this lens is superior than the lenses supplied with the kit.the colors are vibrant and the distant objects are also very clear.on a sunny day this is

it makes a nice portrait lens at 70mm, it seems to do a better job with shortening the depth-of-field compared to the 40-150.

although some reports indicate focus is slow in low-light situations, in good light where this lens will usually be used, it's quite fast.

i've had this lens for a couple of weeks now, shooting with it on an e-420.

it is a quality product and when you have the ability to go from 18 mm to 250 mm with all excellent photos you may not need another lens in your bag.

this lens covers a lot of territory (focal length) and after getting used to it could very easily become the main "walking around" lens to keep on your dslr.

it is in practice a real one lens for everything solution for your pentax or samsung dslr.

in the first week with my pentax k10d 10.2mp digital slr camera with shake reduction (body only) and this lens i've taken some of the most beautiful photos i've ever taken in my life!

update: in response to the person who rated this lens three stars i would like to quote david bush's book "nikon d80 digital field guide" where he states "most lenses produce their sharpest image

btw, my wife has really enjoyed the results this lens has helped me get.

and all that said, it takes great optically stabilized photographs, from a distance (and it really didn't seem too slow...actually pretty quick now that i think about it).

magnifying it with photoshop not only can i see the 'dish network' clearly, but magnifying a little more i can read the 'tm' underneath the logo.

my wife could tell right away.

having used the canon ef-s 17-85mm f/4-5.6 image stabilized usm slr lens for eos digital slr's for about two years now, this is the perfect focal length range for use as a day-to-day walkabout lens

one note, if you are putting this on a canon xsi or similar small body dslr this lens weighs more than the body.

in real life, i have taken the same shots between the two and find myself checking dpp (canon's digital photo professional software) to see which lens took which photo.