Alan Browne wrote:
Skip M wrote:

As with many of Canon's consumer level lenses, there seems to be a
wide variation in samples. This was taken with the 18-55 that was
bundled with my wife's 20D:
http://www.shutterspeedway.com/cgi-b...ces&picture=26
Sharp, good color, not much more that you can ask for in a lens
that
runs about $100.

I'm guessing the shot was made at f/8 to f/11 ... almost any lens
will
do well in bright light and those aperture settings.

The real test is wide open...


The real test is: Did it make an attractive image for viewing in these
circumstances, and it did. A "truly awful" lens would not have been
able to dpo that.