Does anyone have a suggestion for an alternative to the 24-70mm f 2.8L USM with IS?

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Hi everyone,

Pretty new to this forum, but seems like most people know what their talking about. Hope this is the right place to post this and if it's not apologies, and happy to have it moved by an admin to somewhere more suitable!

I while back I grabbed a used Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L USM to shoot events [which is most if my business]. A lot of the work I do are indoor events where I can't for practical reasons use flash. Ideally I'd love to be able to have more than one body [I've got a spare 550D, but I'm not comfortable selling people the output from that camera] and have multiple lenses available without having to change, but right now I can't justify the cost.

I don't really want to upgrade to the MK2 as it has no IS, and I'm always finding myself in places where I'm having to ramping up ISO on my 5D3 to compensate for camera shake and lack of available light.

In general that's OK as most of my clients are looking for web content that isn't going to get blown up, but wide open the Mk1 still had some pretty serious perspective distortion, and I do pride myself on giving people my best work!

I get that distortion it's always going to be an issue, particularly on a zoom, when shot wide open, but there has to be a better alternative to the 24-70mm f 2.8L USM MkI?

Thanks in advance for any help

Barry Robinson
New Street Photography
 
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I'm afraid I can't work out how to delete it! There doesn't seem to be a delete button anywhere...
 
Just report your own post to the mods and they'll tidy it up for you
 
There's the Canon 24-70 F4 IS. You lose a stop of light but the IS system is rated for 4 stops of compensation.

Might not be as good for low-light moving subjects and you'd lose the shallower depth of field of the f2.8.

I don't know of a f2.8 with IS unfortunately.
 
Surprised no-one has suggested the Tamron 24-70 F2.8 it has vibration control (IS). I am very pleased with mine. Much better than my old Canon brick.

See Photozone website's review's conclusion for their summary of this lens
 
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Well technically this thread is dead as he went to the other forum instead.

The Tamron is a good lens by all accounts and superior to the original Canon 24-70 but it's not quite up to the Canon mk2.

I've had the Canon mk1 and will be getting the mk2 at some point. Personally I've never missed IS at these focal lengths.
 
Thanks, I'll try to find and/or sort out the thread, but actually some helpful suggestions none the less [emoji5]️
 
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