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General / Walk around lens for 7DMkII

Started Jan 24, 2017 | Discussions thread
Ronomy
Ronomy Veteran Member • Posts: 4,062
Re: General / Walk around lens for 7DMkII

The Sigma 18-35 art is a crazy sharp lens but the zoom range is limited.  I grabbed a Canon EF-S 15-85mm USM and love this lens for use as a general walk around lens.  It has IS so you can still shoot with a slow shutter speed indoors.  24mm equivalent field of view so nice wide field for family shots.   If you have kids moving around well then you need the sigma or use a flash but even the sigma needs light to allow for fast enough shutter speed to freeze movement but then you have to deal with the shallow depth of field when set to F1.8.  And it doesn't have IS...So you have to use F1.8 indoors most of the time.

The 15-85 is a fun lens when out walking about imho.

 Ronomy's gear list:Ronomy's gear list
Canon PowerShot SD800 IS Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 Canon EOS 7D Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM +6 more
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