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REALLY struggling to decide on a good walkabout lens with pretty good image quality (at least to the level I have now). The issue is im forever changing lenses as the current lenses are just about the 'wrong' focal length for me.
Camera is a canon 40D
Current lens line up:
Sigma 10-20 - great wide angle lens, useful for landscape
Tamron F2.8 17-50 (currently in repair), awesome image quality and low light capability, HOWEVER I dont like it stops at 50, I always want abit more, up to 70/80mm would be useful
Canon 55-250IS - Mines a excellent example with FANTASTIC IQ, great bargin. HOWEVER its not quite wide enough, I often end up swapping frequently between this and the tamron. I do really like the IS on this lens, IQ also, I SO WISH it was 24-250 or something .
IDEALLY I wish someone would make a 17-100 F2.8 (f2.8 throughout the focal length) but no one does.
So a good walkabout lens is needed, iv been all through the mill of different lenses, of whats available ideally a canon 24-105L glass F4 IS, but its silly money (£600-ish) , I broke my choices so far down to:
1) Tamron 24-135, apparently fantastic IQ (up there with 17-50 almost), also works on full frame, reasonble £300 ish price.
2) Tamron 18-250, perhaps the ultimate walk about lens in terms of focal length for a crop sensor, HOWEVER no IS (madness at anything more than 120mm-ish), apparently not so bad on the IQ considering, but ill say it will be lower than my current canon
3) Sigma 18-200 OS, currently ranking high in my possibilities list, OS (love image stabalisation now iv had it on the canon 55-250), great focal range, nice price at 280.
4) New Tamron 18-300VC, EVEN BETTER focal range, probably better than the sigma at 200, has VC, not sure about IQ as of yet, apparently its pretty good of the very limited feedback iv seen, HOWEVER very pricey at over £400
Far out 'other options' are:
Sigma 24-70 f2.8 and canon 17-85 f4-5.6
however I dont think the 70 would quite cut the focal length im after (ideally abit over 100), WHAT would you do ? any help would make this decision alot easier, why cant any make a 17-100 f2.8, hehe
In the future I intend to buy the sigma 150-500OS lens for my telephoto stuff, so its this middle range im abit stuck on
If money/tech was no object:
canon 10-22
17-70 F2.8
70-200 f2.8 IS
150-500OS
Camera is a canon 40D
Current lens line up:
Sigma 10-20 - great wide angle lens, useful for landscape
Tamron F2.8 17-50 (currently in repair), awesome image quality and low light capability, HOWEVER I dont like it stops at 50, I always want abit more, up to 70/80mm would be useful
Canon 55-250IS - Mines a excellent example with FANTASTIC IQ, great bargin. HOWEVER its not quite wide enough, I often end up swapping frequently between this and the tamron. I do really like the IS on this lens, IQ also, I SO WISH it was 24-250 or something .
IDEALLY I wish someone would make a 17-100 F2.8 (f2.8 throughout the focal length) but no one does.
So a good walkabout lens is needed, iv been all through the mill of different lenses, of whats available ideally a canon 24-105L glass F4 IS, but its silly money (£600-ish) , I broke my choices so far down to:
1) Tamron 24-135, apparently fantastic IQ (up there with 17-50 almost), also works on full frame, reasonble £300 ish price.
2) Tamron 18-250, perhaps the ultimate walk about lens in terms of focal length for a crop sensor, HOWEVER no IS (madness at anything more than 120mm-ish), apparently not so bad on the IQ considering, but ill say it will be lower than my current canon
3) Sigma 18-200 OS, currently ranking high in my possibilities list, OS (love image stabalisation now iv had it on the canon 55-250), great focal range, nice price at 280.
4) New Tamron 18-300VC, EVEN BETTER focal range, probably better than the sigma at 200, has VC, not sure about IQ as of yet, apparently its pretty good of the very limited feedback iv seen, HOWEVER very pricey at over £400
Far out 'other options' are:
Sigma 24-70 f2.8 and canon 17-85 f4-5.6
however I dont think the 70 would quite cut the focal length im after (ideally abit over 100), WHAT would you do ? any help would make this decision alot easier, why cant any make a 17-100 f2.8, hehe
In the future I intend to buy the sigma 150-500OS lens for my telephoto stuff, so its this middle range im abit stuck on
If money/tech was no object:
canon 10-22
17-70 F2.8
70-200 f2.8 IS
150-500OS
EDIT:
Also now considering the Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Mk2 ahhhh to much info,lol