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taylorman22 wrote:
Well, I went to Best Buy tonight to look at some stuff and while there I stopped by the cameras. They happened to have a 6D with a 24-105 on it...nice camera! Since I've been debating on possibly getting a 17-55 and selling the 24-105 I was interested to try some of the lenses there. Other than the 24-105, all they had was the 18-55, 18-135, and 28-135.
I have to say, I don't know that I could go back to one of those lenses after having the 'L' lens, regardless of image quality. There's something about the way the 24-105 feels that makes me wanna keep it. It just feels solid in my hands, it has a nice weight, the glass is big (77mm), it's smooth, doesn't rattle, etc.....all in addition to great IQ. The 18-135 and 28-135 just rattled and felt like they were going to fall apart. Granted, they're demo lenses and get beat on all day, so it's not a fair comparison, but I don't think I can sell the 24-105 unless the 17-55 build quality is MUCH better than the 18-135/28-135....Show more →
I wouldn't go too overboard with build. Other than the delicate 50mm 1.4 from Canon or the disastrously designed 70-300 IS Original Dot I've never had a lens go bad (with the 70-300 IS they were actually ALL bad right out of the box, the internals sagged if not shot in landscape orientation!), not even an ancient 35-70 kit lens from the dawn of the age of EOS. If you want to shoot in heavy rain or snow and such the L build can be nice though.
And build doesn't always hold up to falls better. You might drop a lens onto pavement and dent in metal and need an expensive repair on a well built lens and simply crack off a cheap little front plastic piece on a tamron that you can put back on yourself for $10 for all you know. And the 24-70 was said to easily go out of alignment over time from a little knocks over the years so sometimes something apparently well built is actually no better or even worse built than some seemingly worse built stuff. Of course the opposite can be the case too.
I'd focus most of all on what focal length you want and what speed you need and then image quality and then convenience and then build myself.
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