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 Re: New Canon 35mm F2 IS and 24-70mm f/4L IS! | |
So, we\'ll have
- 24-70mm f/2.8 non-IS
- 24-70mm f/4 IS
- 24-105mm f/4 IS
If you want to cover 24-70 with f/4 and IS, why wouldn\'t you simply want the 24-105 f/4 IS and get 35mm extra \"for free?\" If you want/need f/2.8, why wouldn\'t you want the 24-70 f/2.8?
Why doesn\'t Canon put IS in the 24-70 f/2.8, keep the 24-105mm f/4 IS and be done with it? ;-)
The 24-70mm f/4 IS may well be a wonderful performer, but given the other two lenses it sure seems like a strange thing to add when there are other places where Canon could make a bigger splash. Think of something in the ultra wide range for example...
Dan
adrianb wrote:
Aren\'t you guys tired of changing lenses? (I\'m not being ironic and i\'m referring to the fact that when you travel / work with many lenses you have to keep changing them back & forth from the body).
When you\'re coming back from a vacation or holiday or whatever, it\'s not like you\'re gonna need 20mp files sharp & crisp for the pixel peepers..... No,you\'re gonna come back with some nice pictures which you are gonna resize & then post to facebook,forums,web or whatever. You\'re not gonna make huge monster prints...
SO........why spend money on owning redundant lens combos ?
If I had a 24-105 F4L IS, this 24-70 f4L IS wouldn\'t interest me one bit.
I only shot a couple of pictures once with the 24-105 F4L IS, but to me this is a hard lens to beat, as a \'all round\' / \'vacation\' lens...coupled ,for low light situations,with a 50mm 1.4 or a 35mm f2..
If you\'re a professional photographer and earning your money this way, surely you\'ll need a lens like 24-70 2.8 (either I or II), and sometimes the IS cannot compensate for faster aperture (due to many, obvious reasons).
I realize that my judgement is purely subjective on this but: I don\'t get people who own so many lenses that overlap themselves (I don\'t know if I used the correct term,but you get the idea)...
there was somebody here saying that he owns the 35L , the 35 f2, and if the 35 F2 IS would be released ,he would get that too........c\'mon.....
The more lenses I own/would own....the more confused I would be and it would make my lens-picking-decision harder..
Throw me a FF body and a 85L II to accompany my current 24L II, and I\'m all set baby. event, landscape, portrait, you name it. Birding & sporting would be ruled out of course (can\'t really bird or sport with the 85L :| ) but for everything else, I\'d get the job done..
Or since we\'re fantasizing, give me 5d2 + 1d4, and a 24L + 50L 
The other fact that I don\'t get is this urge......to get the \'latest\' gear....I see people throwing away 1Ds3 bodies, 5D2 bodies , being obsessed with 5d3, 1dx, etc...
I will not use that old cliche that \"you can\'t still take great photos with a 5D\" (which it is true), but if I would have a competent body , I would put my money in some good glass. Not in too many lenses. The fewer, the better. and the better the lenses are,the better the results.. Bodies come & go.. lenses last longer and \"get better\" with each new body upgrade...
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