12-05-2022, 08:59 PM
I don't think any of them really were "great"; "acceptable" is more like it. Remember, technology has also progressed and keeps doing so; inexpensive mass-produced aspherical elements were probably what turned around the low-end market somewhere/sometime between the (lousy) Canon 18-55 non-IS kit lens and the (excellent) 18-55 IS kit lens. :-)