Perfect for what I needed it for, Great product

Amazing quality and overall value for money. This lens is 100% worth every cent. - The STM motor is quite, fast and accurate - IS is extremely stable - Sharp focused areas with nice blurred backgrounds - Nice design and build quality I would highly recommend it to any amateur - semi professional...

The camera is of good quality and take super quality photos. It is very easy to use and adopt very good with the weather conditions where you use it.

Easy to use, Compact, Build quality, Battery life, Screen size

I bought this lens a month ago and have used it at a few live events, very impressed with the results, even without a tripod. The auto-focus is quiet too. Great lens.

This is great lens. I use it with my Canon 70d and it works wonderful for the zoom feature. It also works great with the video as well. Bought this lens as a walk around lens, it has not dissapointed. Responsive, no problems tracking.

Fast & accurate autofocus

Poor in low light; heavy

Canon's EF-S 55-250mm is an affordable telephoto zoom designed for owners of mainstream cropped-bodies; as an EF-S model, it's not compatible with full-frame bodies. The EF-S 55-250mm picks-up where the standard 18-55mm kit lens stops, extending the equivalent coverage to a maximum of 400mm.

When writing the summary of this particular lens we can easily say that we get what we paid for. After spending less than 300 USD we can get a lens with a good resolution at the whole focal length range, with well controlled chromatic aberration and optical stabilization – maybe not being 4EV, but...

light weight and compact size, good picture resolution in the middle as well as at the corner of the frame, not very problematic chromatic aberration, good performance against bright light, well controlled coma, reasonable autofocus performance, image stabilization, reasonable price

slight focal plane tilt which results in small, however measurable, differences in chromatic aberration and resolution levels between the two sides of the frame, noticeable astigmatism, relatively large vignetting for all focal lengths, too much plastic in its body

Built solely for Canon APS-C DSLRs, the 55-250mm offers a 35mm equivalent focal length of 88-400mm. While this is a highly versatile telephoto zoom range, other lenses in our round-up can zoom in over twice as tight.

The Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Lens is an inexpensive, light, entry level telephoto zoom lens that has image stabilization, very good image quality for the price and a very useful focal length range that will nicely complement most general purpose zoom lenses .

Canon has updated this lens well, primarily in the focusing category with both internal focusing and the STM motor. The pricing hasn't changed much, so if you're looking for a good telephoto addition to your bag, you really can't go wrong here.