MKIIn owners, please help... wide-angle zoom choice

Hi all,

I am switching the 20D for a MKIIn soon.

I would like to hear from you about recommendations and opinions on a good quality wide-angle zoom (starting from 17, 18, 19mm to 35 or 40mm)

Please exclude all "digital specifically" lens, since MKIIn has 1.3 crop only and I do not want to have vignetting.

I am selling my Sigma 10-20 because of that.

I do not need such tremendous wide power like 10-20, and 12-24 is out of mind because the lack of possibilities on using good filters on it. Also 16-35L is out of mind because I think it is too much over-priced and as I am a tele guy, I prefer to invest more money on a good tele like my 70-200L IS 2.8 I already had bought.

But you know, I need a wide...

I already heard about Tamron 17-35, Tokina 19-35, Canon 17-40, etc...

Please make all comments you want, all info will be very helpfull.

My lens today are :

Canon 50mm 1.4
Sigma 105 macro 2.8
Canon 70-200L IS 2.8
Sigma 50-500 DG
Canon 28-135 IS
Kenko Pro TC 2x

Thanks all for time and attention

Chris

I just bought a 1DMark11N and had to make the same choice. I've kept my 20D but of course the 17-85 EF-S wouldn't fit the 1D.

I plumped for the 17-40L and I'm very pleased with it on sharpness and colour rendering. The build quality is excellent and being a weather resistant lens is a must if you are to take advantage of the weather sealing of the 1D.

Don't underestimate the increase in FOV which the 1.3X crop factor of the 1D gives you with this lens - you get an effective 22mm lens, which is very wide but without the edge distortions you get with extreme wide angle lenses.

I use the 17-40L on my MKII and it's sweet. Any wider would be a bit much and lot's of distortion. You'd be hard pressed to get any vignetting from any lens with a 1.3x sensor.

The only other lens I'd recommend would be the 17-40's much more expensive brother: the 16-35L f/2.8.

I love my 17-40mm L as well,.
Never have needed f/2.8 on my wide angle,. so the f/4L suits me just perfectly.

It really is wide on the 1.3X crop too...

Another 17-40 here on my mk2 and it is just superb,I could not believe the differance comming from A 20d it just seems a lot wider with the 1.3 crop.

17-40 here too, great lens, and also a Sigma 12-24 for crazy wide shots.

malla1962 wrote:
Another 17-40 here on my mk2 and it is just superb,I could not believe the differance comming from A 20d it just seems a lot wider with the 1.3 crop.

Bigtime difference between 1.6 and 1.3 sensors! I was also quite surprised.

Chris -- I'm in exactly the same boat, and am leaning towards the 17-40 as well, but I'd like to try the Tamron 17-35 first - I'd like the extra f-stop at the wide end, and if it's anything like its 28-75 brother it would also be a good choice.

The 17-40mm f4 L is a top lens, can't fault it on my MkIIn.

Thank you all

17-40 seems to be the winner hã ?

good...

let´s play with it...

thanks

Chris Fabbri

Unless you want to pay more for the 16-35 2.8L, then yes, you got yourself the baby brother of it. Only difference being better in lower light situations.

Same here. 17-40. Good on both the 1DM2N and the 5D.

I might add that out of all my lenses, including the other L's, this one has the nice resistance and smoothness for manual focusing we took for granted in the pre-autofocus days.

Another MkIIn and 17-40 shooter here..

Screamer wrote:
Another MkIIn and 17-40 shooter here..

yeah.. pretty soon.... pretty soon...