T7i - Telephoto kit lens of bad quality

[ravinat]

Along with my recent purchase of Canon Rebel T7i, the vendor included two kit lenses - 1) 28-55 mm STM IS lens and 2) 75-300mm EF lens. 

The zoom lens has no IS and the image are bad. I overlooked the IS side of Canon as I came from the Olympus E-510 world, where there was IS on the body.

I am trying to look for 55-250 IS STM lens, which is supposed to capture good images. I need to get rid of the 75-300 mm. In the meanwhile, I have taken shots with a Tripod in bright light and the lens performs OK. In all other circumstances (hand-held, cloudy, indoor) it performs very sub-optimally. 

Two questions:

1) Is the 55-250 IS STM lens a good alternative, given budget considerations?

2) Till I get rid of the 75-300 mm lens, how best can I use it?

[cicopo]

We learn how to do it & practice until we get decent at it before introducing more difficult conditions. As conditions go down hill so does the keeper rate. On 1 forum I belong to a very skilled aviation photographer in Australia is happy with a 1% keeper rate but the photos he puts on line are exceptional.

[ebiggs1]

You do realize cicopo is shooting model RC airplanes and not full size airplanes?  RC is extremely difficult to do as well as he does it.  Plus he has a lot better "L" lens.

[cicopo]

I shoot both types & have a full scale air show coming up in 3 or 4 weeks. R/C is much harder but gives me a lot more practice. I can use higher shutter speeds with the R/C engines but they are also much closer so my panning skills need to be very smooth. Either way practice has a lot to do with results. Better lenses are always a good thing but knowing what settings to use is still very important & I've done full scale with very good results with a consumer grade superzoom. This is from the original 7D & Tamron 18-270. I used 1/320 sec for these. The first one of Skip Stewart was shot with the sun almost directly behind & slightly above him.