20D and lens selection

[psyp3]

Hi,

I am new to this forum and I am Poolak from Yokohama. Japan. I have one EOS-55 with 28-105, 100-300 and 17-40 lenses (all Canon). I have bought one 20D recently and keeping 17-40 as the walk-around lens for the 20D. In fact, I will get rid of EOS-55 (with 28-105 & 100-300) soon.

I have some confusion:

To have an overall coverage from wide to tele (as well as to keep my 17-40),

Shall I go for EFS 10-22 to have something in the wide region?

Shall I go for EF70-200 F4L (not considering F2.8 for cost and weight) to cover the tele zone?

I am an amateur and hence want to cover both the extreme as the case may be.

Regarding EFS 10-22, I don’t know much (nor its close one in Canon family) but I have heard a lot between 70-200 versus 28-135 (the latter having mixed comments whereas 70-200 is everybody’s darling).

Any suggestion and the way I should proceed (buy wide first then go for tele kind of guidance) is highly needed at this stage.

Best regards,

Poolak


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[condyk]

Welcome ...

I'd go for the 70-200 f4 myself as you have at least some wide already very nicely covered, but not much long :) You then have a gap from 40-70 that you may want to fill, at least for a while, with the cheap but good 50mm II, or something like the Sigma 24-70 f2.8 or Tamron 28-75 f2.8 would be good and more flexible much of the time.

[psyp3]

Today, I went to a shop asking their feedback about 10-22. They said since I have 17-40, 10-22 may not be needed and the quality of 10-22 is poorer than 17-40. They highly recommend me to go for 70-200 F4.

But still I am wondering about more wide coverage (as I was gettting with 17-40 with my film camera).

[condyk]

What do you shoot most? If you are mainly interested in wide then you need to select a very wide lens like the 10-22mm (never used it but it is discussed a lot here, both favourable and less favourable, so do a search and make a judgement); if shooting is more balance across the range then go for the Canon 70-200mm or one of the standard zooms ... they are all totally different lenses with different applications. Check out reviews at fredmiranda.com and see which wide lenses are well thought of by users.