If you have the cash why wait? I have been pouring money into B&H all year!
As for the 17-85, sometimes it works out pretty well - macro, 50-85 range. Then you shoot against a bright background wide open and then look and see the huge amount of chromatic aberration. I shot pictures of the Intrepid this weekend - all fringed. Keeping it at the higher end is no solution - can't back up over the hanger deck and at f/4 forget about separating NYC from the planes. In another case I shot an antique car with all shiny chrome- little red CA bands around each bright gleam. So I spend a lot of time using the Photoshop sponge tool, creating masks and nulling out the CA by blending with a complementary color, or for the car - placing bright stars over the worst offenders. Lens correction in Camera RAW and normal Photoshop does not null this out. So much for batching jobs out through bridge. I love my 70-200 f2.8 IS.
I am thinking about the same purchase of the 24-70 but I am looking at a few others. I was in B&H this weekend and if I did not have nasty kids with me I would have tested it out. Maybe I'll find the time to go back.
As for the 17-85, sometimes it works out pretty well - macro, 50-85 range. Then you shoot against a bright background wide open and then look and see the huge amount of chromatic aberration. I shot pictures of the Intrepid this weekend - all fringed. Keeping it at the higher end is no solution - can't back up over the hanger deck and at f/4 forget about separating NYC from the planes. In another case I shot an antique car with all shiny chrome- little red CA bands around each bright gleam. So I spend a lot of time using the Photoshop sponge tool, creating masks and nulling out the CA by blending with a complementary color, or for the car - placing bright stars over the worst offenders. Lens correction in Camera RAW and normal Photoshop does not null this out. So much for batching jobs out through bridge. I love my 70-200 f2.8 IS.
I am thinking about the same purchase of the 24-70 but I am looking at a few others. I was in B&H this weekend and if I did not have nasty kids with me I would have tested it out. Maybe I'll find the time to go back.
). I ordered a 580ex and a 1.4x II teleconverter this weekend. I'm holding off a bit until I can decide what exactly I want next. A friend just received his 24-70mm and I borrowed if for a few hours. While I like the build quality and the obvious IQ, the weight of this thing really took be aback. And, I've been lugging around the 70-200mm f/2.8 IS! You just expect a lens the size of the 24-70 to be so heavy.