I've been looking for a few weeks now for my next lense for my 350D, telephoto wise and I'm frustrated. I thought I had found the lense with the 70-200 4.5 both price wise and quality review BUT it finally hit me it "ain't" an -s lense. Now I'm trying to determine what are my real choices for quality and price for something in the 200mm range. I'm open for all ideas. Robert
CosmicCruiser wrote:
Tell me if I'm wrong but doesn't the 350D, and others, only take the -s lenses? That's the "back focus" lenses right?
All the Rebels (350D) and the xxD series begining with the 20D can take either regular EF or EF-s lenses. Only the D60, D30,10D, 1D series & 5D series can not take EF-s lenses.
If you're just concerned about price and weight, I can recommend the Sigma 50-150mm f2.8 which will translate to 80-230mm for 1.6x crop bodies. It's a very powerful little package. Otherwise you can mount any lens on the 350D and the 70-200mm is an excellent choice.
if you read the manual you would see that the 350d is compatable with EF and EFS lenses.
some good tele choices are: (but not restricted to)
EFS 55-250 IS - Cheap and quite good
EF 70-300 IS - Good Image quality and IS
EF 70-200 F4 L Very good quality and cheap for an L but no IS
EF 70-200 F4 L IS best of the bunch but more expensive
Plenty of others to choose from but these are a start.
Lance Couture wrote:
"EF-S" means "EF mount, short focus". As people have said, the EF-S bodies accept EF lenses just fine.
"Back focus" is an entirely different beast, which is a rather dreaded subject around here...
Actually "Back focus" once meant something entirely different and was used in past "Lens Works" books by Canon to refer to a particular optical design. DSLRs and the internet forced an unfortunate new definition on that term.
CosmicCruiser wrote:
Tell me if I'm wrong but doesn't the 350D, and others, only take the -s lenses? That's the "back focus" lenses right?
As the others have said, "YOU'RE WRONG"
If you look at the EF-s lense line-up, up to just recently you will see they were all down near the wide end except for the 60mm Macro and some zooms like the 17-85 going up to 85. The EF-s was more important for the wide end to get the rear element closer to the sensor to get into the wide range. The new 55-250 IS was a way to get the price down on the zoom range ($250) and provide IS.
Just to confirm what others have said, i've been using a 70-200mm F2.8 L on my 350D for about 16 months. Both it and the F4 version work very well. I also found the EF-S/EF thing a bit confusing when i started, but the bottom line is that all (current) canon lenses will work on the 350D, but EF-S lenses will NOT work on the 10D, 5D and 1D cameras. Be glad you didn't get a Nikon - their lens lineup is rather more confusing.
What sort of pictures do you want to take with the new zoom, just out of interest?
Ian.Dobinson wrote:
if you read the manual you would see that the 350d is compatable with EF and EFS lenses.
some good tele choices are: (but not restricted to)
EFS 55-250 IS - Cheap and quite good
EF 70-300 IS - Good Image quality and IS
EF 70-200 F4 L Very good quality and cheap for an L but no IS
EF 70-200 F4 L IS best of the bunch but more expensive
Plenty of others to choose from but these are a start.
Gochugogi wrote:
Actually "Back focus" once meant something entirely different and was used in past "Lens Works" books by Canon to refer to a particular optical design. DSLRs and the internet forced an unfortunate new definition on that term.
Thanks to all that took time to reply. Doh! Why didn't I think of checking the manual? I guess that was too easy. After numerous glasses of red wine and jumping from website to website I was letting myself get confused and frustrated that I wasn't going to able to use that 70-200f4 that I had decided on.
What sort of pictures do you want to take with the new zoom, just out of interest?
Actually I can't say I have any one genre that I prefer. I get to travel alot so I try to take advantage of interesting places but also with 2 girls I'll do swimming, volleyball, etc. An airshow or two would be in the choices too. Of course when I travel weight/bulk is an issue so if I can go with one lense that's even better. At the moment I just carry the 17-85 EF-s and though it works most of the time the 200mm would be the answer. Last year I saw the Spitfire Anniversary Airshow at Duxford, U.K. and except for static displays got very few flying shots just for lack of focal length.
CosmicCruiser wrote:
Tell me if I'm wrong but doesn't the 350D, and others, only take the -s lenses? That's the "back focus" lenses right?
No, actually many Canon lenses backfocus.
70-200 f/4 is an awesome sharp lens for the money, I'd get that.
Or, the 200 f/2.8L, tack sharp, light, fast.
CosmicCruiser wrote:
What sort of pictures do you want to take with the new zoom, just out of interest?
Actually I can't say I have any one genre that I prefer. I get to travel alot so I try to take advantage of interesting places but also with 2 girls I'll do swimming, volleyball, etc. An airshow or two would be in the choices too. Of course when I travel weight/bulk is an issue so if I can go with one lense that's even better. At the moment I just carry the 17-85 EF-s and though it works most of the time the 200mm would be the answer. Last year I saw the Spitfire Anniversary Airshow at Duxford, U.K. and except for static displays got very few flying shots just for lack of focal length. ...Show more →
Sounds like the 70-200mm F4 will do you nicely. If you can afford the IS then its worth the extra, but the non IS is no slouch if you can't.
find yourself a used EF 80-200mm F/2.8L "magic drainpipe" they can be found for as little as $600 on eBay if you have a little patience. The cool things is if/when you ever move to a more advanced camera body, it gets better...
