Looking for a wide angle prime lens to replace 17-55mm f/2.8

jiffry1017 wrote:

Here are some things I decided

1. I'm not purchasing any more EF-S lenses, in case I upgrade to FF later on
2. Any future zoom lenses will probably be L lens (but not buying it anytime soon)

At the very least, I'm looking for a wide angle prime lens to replace the 17-55, and I'd be open to trying to sell the 50mm and replace it with something similar/better quality.

Here i see your challenge, you don't want zoom, and you need something great to replace your 17-55 and you are still using crop body for now.

First real question is how wide of a lens it need to be? around 17/18mm? or 24 or 35 , that changes everything, so first you need to let people know exactly what focal length you are looking for, to be honest there is really no whole a lot of good super wide primes in the Canon land even you are willing to spend the $$$$.  I am a wide angle lens lover myself so I went thru a lot of different ones over the years.  at around 16-20mm range, the only good one is the TSE17, that's a very specialty lens not for everyday general walk around, so what do you shoot exactly? you didn't give us enough info. beside this TSE, I really can't think of any good Canon prime at this range, the 20 F2.8 is really a piece of crap, and even you are willing to pay the $$$$ for the 14L II, it's still a lens not even as sharp as the $400 Samyang 14 and full of coma, which is one of the worst choice if you are into astro like myself,

However, if you are open to zoom and 3rd party primes, and manual focus lenses then you have tons of great lens to choose from.