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Travel / walk around lens for my EOS 600D

Started Oct 1, 2019 | Discussions thread
Rexgig0
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Re: F4.0 is too slow for indoor

Wave forest wrote:

Andy01 wrote:

Wave forest wrote:

Third party lenses are fine if they are fine-tuned.

User Experience of Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM C

1Dx4me wrote:

a canon 24-105mm f4.0 "L", preferably refurbished by canon to save money! this is an excellent range lens for walk around and daily activity with high IQ, much better than ef-s lenses, and someday when you upgrade to FF camera, 24-105 will fit nicely. i personally stay away from 3rd party lenses due to sometime AF compatibility with canon cameras! YMMV.

Not all of them. I had a Sigma 17-50 f2.8 that was just inconsistent, so no amount of AFMA would help - sometimes it got the focus right, other times it didn't.

From what I can tell, this is not a particularly unusual experience with Sigma lenses on Canon. It doesn't affect all lenses, but it certainly affects a lot Sigma lenses than Canon lenses.

Colin

The point is that F4.0 at 600D is too slow. It is equivalent to F5.6 at a full-frame camera. It is almost no use for locations such as museums, aquariums, botanic green houses, and streets in evening. There are not many Canon relatively fast lenses for their APS-C cameras.

”Too slow?” Please explain how you know this to be true.

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By accident of availability, I learned to use Canon and Nikon DSLRs at the same time. I love specific lenses made by both Canon and Nikon, too much to quit either system. Dabbling with Leica-M is fun, too. I am, certainly, not an expert.

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