I've just given my sister my 30D, battery grip, 70-300 & nifty fifty, and she wants to give my old 300D to my dad, but this would leave her without the 18-55 kit lens she's been using (and it's VERY good to be fair). As she currently doesn't have a lens to cover that lens loss I've offered to get her a replacement if she's good 
My question is, is the newer one with IS as good/better/worse than the old kit lens?
I had a quick look on WEX and they're only £148 so IQ wise it's not going to be a world beater, but if they are as decent/better as the old kit lens I'll get one for her (extra brownie points for me from my sister and dad).
Obviously I've had a search around, but there seems to be a lot of conflicting info on the subject, with people not helping by incorrectly identifying lens models, which doesn't help.
Has anyone got any experience with the old & new 18-55 kit lenses? A scoot about (baring in mind I've never wanted to buy this lens, so this is new info to me!), it seems there is the old 18-55 which my 300D came with, there's a 18-55 IS and a 18-55IS II which is dirt cheap @ £78 and also received awful reports, and good reports.
Anyone got any idea which of these is worth getting? To be clear, I'm not wanting to spend £300 on the better options for this focal length, I just want a replacement for the kit lens to give to my sister. I've got my own lenses for my 60D, so this is just replacing my sisters older stuff I gave her.
Ta!
My question is, is the newer one with IS as good/better/worse than the old kit lens? I had a quick look on WEX and they're only £148 so IQ wise it's not going to be a world beater, but if they are as decent/better as the old kit lens I'll get one for her (extra brownie points for me from my sister and dad
).Obviously I've had a search around, but there seems to be a lot of conflicting info on the subject, with people not helping by incorrectly identifying lens models, which doesn't help.
Has anyone got any experience with the old & new 18-55 kit lenses? A scoot about (baring in mind I've never wanted to buy this lens, so this is new info to me!), it seems there is the old 18-55 which my 300D came with, there's a 18-55 IS and a 18-55IS II which is dirt cheap @ £78 and also received awful reports, and good reports.
Anyone got any idea which of these is worth getting? To be clear, I'm not wanting to spend £300 on the better options for this focal length, I just want a replacement for the kit lens to give to my sister. I've got my own lenses for my 60D, so this is just replacing my sisters older stuff I gave her.
Ta!
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As one stop have them for £78 I imagine I'll get it there