Originally posted by Clavius Just to bring some ballance to all the 18-135 jokes: It's my most used lens. My precious prime gems only come out when the conditions are acceptable. Which isn't very often in my country. So the DA 18-135 gets the most work and the worst beating. A real workhorse.
The OP was never intended as a knock on the 18-135mm, which I think is a great lens. It was intended as a parody of some of the lens reviews in the PF gear database. This includes abusing the expression "prime lens at every focal length" and the complaints about a lens that isn't "a useful focal length [range] ", among other things.
The gear database is chock full of these ludicrous comments and unrealistic ratings. I thought it would be fun to combine some of the finer ludicrous statements and add some exaggeration in there for dramatic effect. I actually wrote that post many years ago on another forum, but thought it was time to revive it.