17-40 on FF wide enough?

Planning on taking a spring trip to Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Bend & Antelope Canyon. Was wondering if the 17-40 on my 5Dc would be wide enough? Should I look into renting something else instead?

It should be wide enough. If not, you can always do a stitched panorama.

When you start getting wider, you start getting a whole lot of distortion as well. If that's the look you're going for then go wider but as mentioned, if you are looking to that panorama, stitching is a good option.

I shoot solely landscape and I exclusively use a 17-40mm and have shot in the Southwest quite a few times. I actually tend to use it around 22-28mm and it seems to be its sweet spot.

I did most of Arizona with a 5dc and 17-40 with no real problems. Very few times, if at all, did I wish I had a wider lense.

This is the combo I use and it's great - not a huge deal of diference in the FOV between this and say the mega expensive Canon 14mm.

It really depends on your style. A lot of people have trouble working at 17mm on FF because they aren't used to composing with such a wide field of view. If you tend to see your compositions with massive amounts of depth and expansion, and are able to 'organize' that much of a scene in the frame, then you'll make great use of focal lengths that are 17mm or wider. Otherwise, you might have better success with more compressed, normal or telephoto lengths.

17 on FF is really wide.

I appreciate everyone's feedback. I am just trying to decide if I should use the 17-40 or the 24-105 IS when I go to Antelope Canyon & Horseshoe Bend, etc.

I have both now (recently upgraded, havent had time with work to go shoot much). I would say both are nice... the 17-40 is really nice for landscapes... but if you want anything besides a 'wide' shot then I wouldn't suggest it.... cause you cant get zoomed in too far with only 40mm... so really comes to what you plan on shooting. take both if you can

Assuming you're going to shoot the 'standard' view of HS, 17 is enough.

I'd take the longer zoom into Jackalope.

Mr. Bill wrote in post #15729919
I appreciate everyone's feedback. I am just trying to decide if I should use the 17-40 or the 24-105 IS when I go to Antelope Canyon & Horseshoe Bend, etc.

I use a 16-35 II and 24-70 II. Most of the times I use the 24-70 II for landscape photos. I would bring the 24-105 if you only want to bring one lens.
I would bring both

I shot at Antelope Canyon last year with 24-105mm and I think most of my pictures were in 30-50mm range.

Here are some pics - Antelope Canyon Pictures

dkizzle wrote in post #15783739
I shot at Antelope Canyon last year with 24-105mm and I think most of my pictures were in 30-50mm range.

Here are some pics - Antelope Canyon Pictures

Very nice shots you have there. Would you be willing to share with me some of the exif data from those shots?

Mr. Bill
When I shot 35mm film years ago (aka "Full Frame" in today's digital world) I used a 24 and 28mm wide angle lenses and they were plenty wide. I've seen the 17-40 on a 5D in Best Buy and that was crazy wide. Either way you'll be happy, but I do not know how often you would really use anything wider than 24mm as that may be your style, or not.

My .02 cents.