Canon 24mm Pancake Lens

Sell the 18-55, 40/2.8 and buy a Sigma 17-50/2.8 OS. It will give you 2.8 from wide environmental portraits to head and shoulders shots.

msowsun wrote in post #17617981
Most people consider 24mm to be too wide for portraits. Why would you want to use 24mm for portraits when you already have 40mm and 50mm?

Depends what you mean by portraits Mike. Fill the frame with a head with the 24mm, yeah I tend to agree. Put the subject in their environment as one would do with street photography, a 24 mm lens on a crop sensor camera wouldn't be too wide. Even on full frame this would work.

24mm on a cropper is equivalently pretty close to the old 35mm loved by photojournalists.

Here is a portrait I shot at 18mm


http://www.pbase.com/j​urgentreue/image/74512​106

FEChariot wrote in post #17618723
Sell the 18-55, 40/2.8 and buy a Sigma 17-50/2.8 OS. It will give you 2.8 from wide environmental portraits to head and shoulders shots.

I am getting a used Tamron 17-50 (non VC) at an attractive price of $150 in my country. Do you think it would serve the purpose?

Kaval wrote in post #17620352
I am getting a used Tamron 17-50 (non VC) at an attractive price of $150 in my country. Do you think it would serve the purpose?

It should do well. I think the Tamron is a little sharper in the corners, the Sigma a little sharper in the center so the Sigma would be better for portraits and the Tammy better at scapes, but both do all pretty well. AF on the Sigma is faster and has stabilization, but not game changers.

The price difference between Sigma and Tamron is much higher in my country. I won't be able to afford a Sigma (new or used).

yogestee wrote in post #17620117
Here is a portrait I shot at 18mm

http://www.pbase.com/j​urgentreue/image/74512​106

That's a very nice shot!

May I ask you at what distance you took this shot? Any rough idea?