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Canon General Purpose/Event Lens

Started Feb 16, 2016 | Questions thread
Steve Balcombe Forum Pro • Posts: 15,582
Re: Canon General Purpose/Event Lens

inevitablyissie wrote:

Steve Balcombe wrote:

diness wrote:

inevitablyissie wrote:

Canon 17-55 f2.8 - Sharp but the focal range could be limiting in certain events?

On a crop sensor camera, this lens, or it's Sigma equivalent, is probably what I would personally want at an event.

I agree, and I'd always choose slightly too wide in preference to slightly too long. You can often step closer at an event, and you can crop if you have to. You can't do much if your lens isn't wide enough especially if there's a wall behind you!

That is a very good point, my current thinking is purchasing a 24-70 or a similar range lens and eventually upgrading my 55-250 to the 70-200 (it just looks amazing), what do you think?

I figured my 10-18 could possibly cover me for wider angles if necessary, but I definitely agree it's better to be too wide than not wide enough!

If it's only a very occasional requirement then I guess you could use your 10-18, but a solution that depends on regular lens swapping is probably not a good one. Also it leaves you with a gap in a very tricky place - a *lot* of indoor event shots would be taken in that 18-24 range. And don't forget the 10-18 is only an f/4.5-5.6 - very slow for use indoors.

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