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EB-1 wrote:
Get the 17-40/4 or 16-35/2.8 II, 24-105/4 IS and 70-200/4 IS. Take 1, 2 or all 3 depending on the outing.
EBH
That is a trio that is my basic "go to" set for shooting a lot of stuff, especially in the out-of-doors and when I want good coverage but don't want to take the whole kitchen sink. This set (with the 17-40 in my case) is what I often use in the back-country, including a recent 9-day shoot in the Kings Canyon high country.
On one backcountry trip a few years back I shot only the 24-105 for a bit more than a week. I found that 24mm was usually plenty wide, and that I could live without the longer FL. (Though, truth be told, it is a personal preference of mine to shoot longer lenses for some landscape work.)
Some people who are trying to lighten things a bit will go with a similar set, but will lose the 24-105 and "fill the gap" between the other two lenses with a 50mm prime.
The 24-105 does produce barrel distortion at 24mm, along with more vignetting than some other options - in fact, these are its main downsides. However, no lens is perfect, so in every case the downsides need to be set against the advantages and always in the context of what and how one shoots. For example, in landscape and photos of people (as the OP might do in some of the sports stuff) the barrel distortion at 24mm is virtually never visible, as it might be if one used the lens at 24mm to shoot, say, architecture. The same holds true for the vignetting. And, as was pointed out, both are easily (and automatically) corrected in post if you like. And, again, what are the alternatives, and how do they stack up for this sort of use? I also shoot the 24-70 f/2.8. It is fine lens, but when shooting such subjects with it I often miss the extra 35mm of focal length at the long end and the IS. Primes can produce fine image quality, too, as an alternative - but I'd rather be able to fine tune the framing of my shots and not have to change lenses as often for these sorts of conditions.
In the end, the OP and others posters certainly could weigh these factors differently that I do and come to another conclusion, but to me it often seems like what the OP describes is more or less what this lens was made for.
Dan
(I shoot full frame)
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