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Lens Advice: 2 Mid-Level Primes or 1 L-Series Wide Angle Zoom

Started Jun 10, 2013 | Discussions thread
MarcosV Veteran Member • Posts: 6,522
Re: Lens Advice: 2 Mid-Level Primes or 1 L-Series Wide Angle Zoom
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If my purpose was to play with primes, I would go for the 28mm first and the 50mm later.  28mm or 35mm on a APS-C is more flexible than 50mm which becomes a short telephoto.

However, note that these lens do not replace the zoom that came with your camera.  If you use your camera for general photography (e.g., snap shots), you'll generally find a zoom is more convenient for the focal range and avoiding swapping lens a lot.

I personally wouldn't go for the 17-40L.  17-40L makes sense if you are going full frame *soon* since it is the cheap UWA zoom option for full frame.  Instead I would go for one of the cropped zoom options such as a 15-85 or 17-55/2.8.

Before making the jump t full frame, I went with two crop lens:

1. 17-55/2.8 because I wanted a good zoom lens for my main walk around lens and decided constant f/2.8 made this lens distinctive.  It gets the most use.

2. 10-22 because with crop sensors it is difficult to get decent ultra wide angle lens (prime or zoom).

Those two EF-s lens were the only crop only lens I kept.

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