Canon RF-S 18-150mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens

Expanded Canon RF-S 18-150mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens Key Features:

Go Beyond The Everyday

This RF-S 18-150mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens from Canon will help photographers to expand their skills and get closer to subjects for stunning travel, wildlife and macro images. Designed to help you capture life in all its glory, this lens boasts an 8.3x APS-C zoom that packs in an incredibly useful 29-240mm (35mm equivalent) focal length range. With such a dynamic range, users can benefit from the versatility of flexing between landscapes, garden wildlife, sports and travel for a fully-fledged, comprehensive photography experience.

Experiment with Focusing

Benefitting from Canon’s infamous STM motor, the RF-S 18-150mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens achieves smooth, silent and accurate focusing - ideal for taking photos discretely to provide more natural results. The 7-blade diaphragm and f3.5-6.3 aperture also provide greater control over light to help you create artistic out of focus highlights and beautifully circular bokeh. With the combined focusing/control ring, you can also go manual and experiment with macro in MF Mode for 0.59x maximum magnification.

Ideal for Everyday Use

In line with the compact design of mirrorless technology, the combined weight of the Canon RF-S 18-150mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens and an EOS R APS-C mirrorless camera offers significant weight savings compared to a DSLR equivalent. In keeping things compact, Canon makes storage and transportation far more convenient. It’s incredibly easy to pack up this lens and take it out all day for much longer periods of use, so you never have to miss those all-important moments.

Our Review

Why we love the Canon RF-S 18-150mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens:

• It’s the ideal everyday lens - it has a wide focal range and caters to all sorts of photographic genres.
• It has the RF-S lens mount and just like the Canon EF-S lens mount, you can put these lenses on their full-frame counterparts. You just have to remember to put the camera into APS-C mode. This is Canon’s way of making the entire RF and RF-S range as accessible as possible.
• The STM motor offers quick and quiet AF, and it has image stabilisation up to 7 stops depending on the camera you use.

Use this lens for:

• This lens offers a wide optical range with a 35mm full-frame equivalent focal range of 29-240mm, so you have the scope to use this as an all-day lens while you’re out and about.
• This lens gives people a way to enter the RF system at a lower price point!

Look and feel:

• Compared to other similar lenses, it’s a pretty small lens for the focal range that you’re getting! It’s only 300g!
• It’s a simple set-up with no exterior controls and just a large, rubberised control ring that can be customised for exposure values, autofocus mode etc. - it feels great, it's smooth and efficient.

Is it better?

• Canon offers another similar lens designed for their EOS-M systems and it’s safe to say that these two lenses are very similar. They’re essentially the same lens for different systems - they are both very compact and lightweight, and offer image stabilisation that is great if the camera body you’re using doesn’t have its own IBIS.
• Something that would be ideal would be weather sealing. Without this, of course, it somewhat limits you. But with planning or protective measures, this shouldn’t be too much of an issue. Also, the aperture isn’t particularly fast, but for the price and optical range - it’s not bad.

What’s in the box?

• 1 x Canon RF-S 18-150mm f3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens
• 1 x Lens Cap E-55
• 1 x Lens Pouch LP1016
• 1 x Rear End Cap RF