The right wide-angle zoom

hotdog321 wrote:

Odd, I shoot basketball with the 85mm f/1.8 and it focuses fine. In fact, that would be my recommended basketball lens for full frame, though maybe a 50mm would work better with a crop camera. I also shoot with the 70-200 f/2.8 for floor action.

To your point, one of the better photogs I know says that the 70-200 on a full frame is ideal for basketball. The problem, I guess, is that I have a non full-frame, so it's more like a 110-320 or so...

But to answer your question, the 16-35 is a real meat-and-potatoes photojournalist lens, though too wide for normal basketball shots. The 24-70 f/2.8L II might also work well on crop cameras--it is incredibly sharp, flare resistant and fast focusing.

Great. One additional question as I read responses then too. Am I correct to think that the EFS lenses DON'T work on full-frame? If this is the case, does their zoom also need to be thought of as 1.6 magnification (despite the fact that they're seemingly made for a cropped chip)?

Here's an example of a shot that has me asking my question in the first place. Among other things that I'm probably not doing right composition-wise (including shooting landscape), just not wide enough to show more of the play/players. This was a sports-center top-10 play I shot from the baseline at the corner and it was probably aimed a little high, among other things. I feel like a slightly wider option would have given me more room for error and the ability to crop a little later if I needed to for a play like this...