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As it says in the heading, what lens would you buy if you have £500 .

Mostly it will be used for landscapes, but would be very helpful if i could do close ups of dog's with it too if that is possible?

It would be on a Cannon 400d.

What do you recomend please?

Thank you
 
For your dog I'd go for 70-200mm and 1.4x. F/4 is OK, f/2.8 much better still.

If dog is less important, then Tokina 12-24mm / 11-16mm + Tamron 17-50mm or Tokina 16-50mm or Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS are well respected.

If you are after one lens, then it would have to be 24-105mm IS.
 
The Canon 15-85 may be a good choice, width for landscapes and a bit of reach for the dogs.
 
Thank's Daugirdas.

How much is the 24-105mm IS? and where would you buy it from?

Do you have much to say about the EF 24-85mm f3.5-4.5 USM?

Cheer's
 
Noob said:
Thank's Daugirdas.

How much is the 24-105mm IS? and where would you buy it from?

Do you have much to say about the EF 24-85mm f3.5-4.5 USM?

Cheer's
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On ebay I've seen some go for less than £600, and similar in here. Keep watching.

24-85mm is *probably* a good lens for crop cameras, rubbish on FF based on http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/185-canon-ef-24-85mm-f35-45-usm-lab-test-report--review (they have really good tests, unlike some other popular sites). I intended to buy one, but accidentally ended up with 24-70.
 
For landscapes, you want something wide - like around 10-15mm on your 400D. The best lens that fits the bill is the Canon 10-22mm which is within budget.

Get the lens hood with it, and also a top quality polarising filter such as Hoya HD or Pro-1.

Edit: no good for close-ups of dogs though - you need a much longer lens for that. Something around 70-200 or so I'd say.
 
HoppyUK said:
For landscapes, you want something wide - like around 10-15mm on your 400D. The best lens that fits the bill is the Canon 10-22mm which is within budget.

Get the lens hood with it, and also a top quality polarising filter such as Hoya HD or Pro-1.
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I'm quite sure that polarising filters won't work 100% with such wide angle lenses - you don't get total coverage/polarisation - although I haven't tried them personally.
 
No a CPL gets weird effects at the wide end of the 10-22.... you get darker patches of sky etc...

Depends if that bothers you or not really!

Oh and you can get some crazy dog photos at 10mm... perhaps not want you wanted, but funny none the less :D
 
Welcome to the forum!

I'm afraid I don't use Canon so can't offer much help in that respect but this may be of use. Never considered myself a grammar nazi but how you've used those apostrophes is ugly!
 
Cheng said:
I'm quite sure that polarising filters won't work 100% with such wide angle lenses - you don't get total coverage/polarisation - although I haven't tried them personally.
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Polarisers work fine with wide-angles! However, the darkening of blue skies varies with the angle to the sun and since ultra-wides take in such a wide view at the short end, this can result in a darker patch as the angle varies across the picture. The effect varies depending on the height of the sun, time of day, which country you're in!

Mostly I find this 'problem' is mostly unnoticed (especially if there are clouds about) and even if it is noticeable, rarely a problem at all. If you don't like it, rotate the filter to moderate it, or even reduce the effect to zero.

That aside, a polariser will still reduce reflections, eg on water, glass, paint, even skin - and there are always reflections of leaves, grass and foliage so a polariser richens the colours in landscapes generally. Which is why a lot of landscapers have a polarising filter almost permanently attached (including me :) ).

TriggerHappy said:
Welcome to the forum!

I'm afraid I don't use Canon so can't offer much help in that respect but this may be of use. Never considered myself a grammar nazi but how you've used those apostrophes is ugly!
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You could get shot for not putting a capital on Natzi :D
 
The Tokina 11-16mm is a fine lens. Bit cheaper than the Canon 10-22mm also constant f2.8 is useful.
 
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