Lenses for DSLR
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- slappy0
The 18-55 kit is soft in the corners, soft until f8 and suffers from warm spots on long exposures. The front of the lens spins when it focuses throwing off your circular polariser settings if you use one (they are good).
The 17-85 IS USM is definately much better and the IS is really handy in low light without a tripod.
For me the best "bang for buck" was the Canon 17-40mm L. Colours and contrast are great, its sharp and no real barrel distortion or vignetting to speak of. Its also quite flare resistant. Build quality is excellent to and it weather sealed once a filter is added to the lens. The lens doesnt extent or contract while zooming so these lenses arnt fazed by dust or fungus (yes fungus is common in humid conditions).
I use this with a 70-200L as the main two in my bag. These lenses do add up but they are by no means over kill.
I have used some ok sigma lenses but their QA from the factory doesnt seem to be that great with friends returning lenses a few times on average before getting "good copies".
- The Canon 17-40mm L
I have this one as well and definitely agree.lherb
- The Canon 17-40mm L