I’m no Canon owner, but if I was I would be a bit surprised that Canon makes literally zero zoom lenses of ‘somewhat better than kit quality’. Or am I missing something?
There are three cheap zooms, the 18-55mm range, costing from 149 to 250 USD (at launch), then the next one up is over 1000 USD (the 17-55mm 2.8), more than four-fold more expensive.
Aren’t they forgetting their own ‘enthusiast amateur’ market here, leaving all the fun to Sigma, Tamron et al?
At least Sony have the CZ 16-80mm, which for some reason seems to be a ‘love it or hate it’ lens (I love it), as well as the new 16-50mm 2.8 (now 750 USD ish, not sure how that compares to Canon’s 17-55mm 2.8 price wise, but the wide angle sounds more useful than Canon’s longer reach plus it’s weather sealed).
What’s the situation with Nikon here?
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.