Don't know what to buy

Totally OT, but doing the quick math, do you realize CDS has an avg of 17 posts per day, and Tim 25?!!!! I'd like to see anyone best that

Heh, I was having lunch and got bored. I've mostly lost interest in gear, it's not what you have, it's what you do with it, though good gear helps a lot.

fStopJojo wrote:
Totally OT, but doing the quick math, do you realize CDS has an avg of 17 posts per day, and Tim 25?!!!! I'd like to see anyone best that

Even CDS with his 17K+ posts is only on 17 posts per day... at this rate I should overtake him in May 2008

First place it's indeed a honey moon but i want to get good photos. I'm indeed looking for a excuse to purchase a new lens. Like Tim said, a wide lens would do the trick. I hope the 17-40 would to the trick here, so if i'm going to take this lens with me, i don't have to buy a new toy right now. I'm gonna continu on taking pictures and hopefully find out what i'm missing.

I hope i get some reply's but it's down to 2 choices.
1. Canon 24-105
2. Canon 70-200 2.8

I was shooting some landscape this week and i needed to get some more zoom. That was the first time i missed it. I had the F4 version but didn't used it. Now, when i would need it, i missed it. (sold it a couple weeks ago).
The lens going to Thailand will be the 17-40 or 24-105 if i get it. I think the would be perfect to use for landschape and i'm going to use it mostly on a tripod. If i think later the line, then i will add a 24-70 or 24-105 for midrange use. I think that would be my lens setup and where everything i do would be coverd. Don't have the money for the IS, so.

The 70-200 F2.8 is heavy and large, not something you'd take on a honeymoon. For a travel lens the 24-105 would be much better, personally i'd probably just stick with the wide lens.

As much as I love my 70-200mm f/2.8L, it's not going to be the lens for either landscape or macro photography. I don't know if that's were you were thinking, but don't.

If you're looking to round out your lens selection, I would probably lean towards the 24-105mm...

If i get the 2.8 70-200, i don't bring that on the vacation.I'll bring the 17-40.
If i get a 24-105, then i'll take that instead of the 17-40. I was shooting some landschape and i find ou that my 17-40 wasn't long enough. So i thought instead, i also could buy a 70-200 2.8. I know it's heavy but i'm shooting mostly on a tripod. I had the f4 version but didn't use it, but when i needed something longer last week, i missed it. And the range between the 40(17-40) and the 105(24-105) isn't that much, so with the 200, it will be longer. En then later the route i would add the 24-105 for the mid, so that i'd coverd the range from 17 to 200.

I know i'd miss the 12mm on my 12-24 if I didn't have it on holiday. Sometimes I wish for 10mm.

I have no need for that wide right now (10mm/12mm). I'm even thinking of buying the f4 version again. Really don't know any more. Even the DO comes up.