{"id":7538,"date":"2019-02-19T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/new-glass-for-the-canon-t6i-and-sl1-cameras\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:03:52","slug":"new-glass-for-the-canon-t6i-and-sl1-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/new-glass-for-the-canon-t6i-and-sl1-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"New Glass for the Canon T6i and SL1 Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canon SL1 and EF-S 18-135 mm Lens<\/a>Earlier this month, Tam<\/a> wrote about trying different glass<\/a> to replace a zoom lens with not-so-great performance. That post gave us the idea that we too might benefit from lens upgrades for our two Canons – Damsel’s is an EOS Rebel T6i and mine (shown at right) is an EOS Rebel SL1 – both DSLR cameras. <\/p>\n

Since the stock lens that came with both cameras was a zoom with a focal length range of 18 mm -55 mm, we decided in getting a better lens<\/a> with the same starting focal length and stretching the maximum focal length out to 135 mm.<\/p>\n

I took the above image of the SL1 with the EF-S 18-135 Lens attached with my little Kodak FZ152 Pocket Camera. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although we haven’t put the new optics through extensive evaluation, we see that the performance is pretty good. I went out this morning to get a few pictures to see how the performance was in general. The following two images of the RV and a hummingbird demonstrate the extreme wide and narrow focal length performance. Click on either image to enlarge.<\/p>\n

18 mm zoom<\/a> 135 mm zoom<\/a><\/p>\n

As we put the new lenses into use we should get a feel for how the new optics performance will be. Just from today, I can generally see that the Image Stabilizer does an effective job of keeping the camera steady and I can’t readily detect a lot of chromatic aberration at maximum zoom.<\/p>\n

We hope everyone had good St. Valentines and Presidents Days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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