The 18-55 is a perfectly adequate kit lens. When I first started selling 35mm film cameras (in 1979 - BLAH!) the two most common additional lenses were 28mm fixed wide angle and 70-210 zooms. In 35mm terms, applying the 1.6 crop factor multiplier, the 18-55 is actually a 29-88 zoom. So you have a decent wide to short tele, basically a very good utility lens. And I'd guess a T5 is somewhere around a 16 megapixel sensor? I expect you get plenty good photos with it. The one thing that you must be EXTREMELY CAREFUL with is that the lenses that Canon sells for the Rebel series have a rubber ring on the base. If you mount that lens on a camera with a full=frame sensor, such as my 6D, IT WILL BREAK THE MIRROR. This falls under the category of Not A Good Thing.
So not a bad kit. It's difficult to get much wider on the Rebel series because that 1.6 crop factor is always weighing on you, that's why I was so happy getting my 6D and then finding a used 17-40 zoom. When I was shooting film, I had a 20mm fixed and absolutely loved it, also had a marvelous 24-48. Those two lenses spent a lot of time on that Pentax MX!
I don't know how much a 6D body goes for, probably around $1300 new. But you'd need a lens for it if all you have is that 18-55 for your T5. The lens that I got with mine is a 24-105, very nice. I had my 35-105, which is quite adequate, but it's also very old and the new one had image stabilization built-in. I'm keeping my SL1 Digital Rebel for telephoto stuff where the 1.6 multiplier works in my favor. So pluses and minuses.
The real thing that got me my 6D though was the death of an aunt. I was saving towards it progressively, when my dad's sister passed unexpectedly a few years ago. I visited her and helped out as much as I could as she was only 90 minutes away and my dad was 400 miles further on, and after she passed my dad gave me a $500 check at the funeral and later a four digit check, so I immediately bought the body. No regrets, it'll last me a LONG time.
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So not a bad kit. It's difficult to get much wider on the Rebel series because that 1.6 crop factor is always weighing on you, that's why I was so happy getting my 6D and then finding a used 17-40 zoom. When I was shooting film, I had a 20mm fixed and absolutely loved it, also had a marvelous 24-48. Those two lenses spent a lot of time on that Pentax MX!
I don't know how much a 6D body goes for, probably around $1300 new. But you'd need a lens for it if all you have is that 18-55 for your T5. The lens that I got with mine is a 24-105, very nice. I had my 35-105, which is quite adequate, but it's also very old and the new one had image stabilization built-in. I'm keeping my SL1 Digital Rebel for telephoto stuff where the 1.6 multiplier works in my favor. So pluses and minuses.
The real thing that got me my 6D though was the death of an aunt. I was saving towards it progressively, when my dad's sister passed unexpectedly a few years ago. I visited her and helped out as much as I could as she was only 90 minutes away and my dad was 400 miles further on, and after she passed my dad gave me a $500 check at the funeral and later a four digit check, so I immediately bought the body. No regrets, it'll last me a LONG time.