Any fast wide lenses for Canon SL1?

Hello!

I just bought a Canon SL1 because I saw a really good deal on Craigslist, and I'm coming from micro four thirds.

I want a fast and semi wide lens for my SL1. I bought the Canon 24mm F2.8, and I like it. I just wish it was faster. I usually shoot wide, and thought about the Sigma 30mm F1.4. I think I would be good with that. Are there any other lenses you would recommend that would still make the SL1 lightweight?

memo90061 wrote in post #17801333
Hello!

I just bought a Canon SL1 because I saw a really good deal on Craigslist, and I'm coming from micro four thirds.

I want a fast and semi wide lens for my SL1. I bought the Canon 24mm F2.8, and I like it. I just wish it was faster. I usually shoot wide, and thought about the Sigma 30mm F1.4. I think I would be good with that. Are there any other lenses you would recommend that would still make the SL1 lightweight?

Just wondering what you mean by wide. Most would not regard 24mm and 30mm as wide on the SL1. OK, 24 is slightly wide, but 30mm is the normal focal length for an APS-C sensor.

The 10-18mm STM lens is cheap and excellent. However, it is not fast being f/4.5 at the wide end. Maybe you would have to settle for the 17-55mm/2.8. There's also the EF-S 15-85, which is wider at the wide end but only f/3.5.

Why do you need fast? Increase the ISO.

You are not going to find a lens that is simultaneously; fast, wide, and small. Two of the three, yes that is possible, although the fast is always going to be expensive. There are options that are f/1.4 at both 24mm (from Canon and Sigma) and 20mm (Sigma) that maintain AF, and there are also some native EF mount MF lenses in that range. All of those lenses though are around £1000, and large and heavy, they pretty much all cover the 35mm frame size too.

If size is an issue then as Archibald says use a slower, smaller designed for APS-c lens, and bump your ISO a stop or two.

Alan

Sigma 18-35 f1.8
Sigma 10-20 f3.5
Tamron 16-28 f2.8
Tokina 11-16 f2.8

Not small lenses but should fit the other criteria

memo90061 wrote in post #17801333
Hello!

I just bought a Canon SL1 because I saw a really good deal on Craigslist, and I'm coming from micro four thirds.

I want a fast and semi wide lens for my SL1. I bought the Canon 24mm F2.8, and I like it. I just wish it was faster. I usually shoot wide, and thought about the Sigma 30mm F1.4. I think I would be good with that. Are there any other lenses you would recommend that would still make the SL1 lightweight?

Heya,

Basically no. Anything fast, will be big. Anything light weight, will be slow.

If you want smaller, faster, lighter, and still APS-C, there is the EOS-M (M3) & 22mm F2. That thing is small and fast and sharp.

The 30 F1.4 and 28 F1.8 flavors are the fastest options that are not huge for an APS-C that are relatively wide and quite fast.

There's also the Yongnuo 35 F2 which is pretty small and light weight, it's the size of a nifty-fifty. This is probably the smallest, fastest, widest lens for $100 that will work.

At this point though, if you need your SL1 to be super small, and a lens to be super small, I don't think moving to a dSLR is the right way to go. Unless you needed the larger APS-C sensor coming from M43, for lower light performance, you're not going to get anything significant from it. And the strength of the dSLR is the adaptability of lenses, none of which are small, and they just get bigger and bigger.

Very best,

Like Alan said above, fast, wide, and small don't come in one package. The 24 STM is certainly small. It is neither fast, nor wide. The Sigma 20 f/1.4 A is fast, wide, but not small. It weighs considerably more than your SL1. Costs more, too. Fast and wide is the general domain of full frame. Pixels on target at range is the domain of apsc. Small is the domain of P&S, M4/3, superzooms, and the like. Choose your compromise; you can't have it all. Well, not in one camera, anyway. BTW, there is nothing wrong with having more than one camera.

This.

As Teamspeed mentioned, and I forgot, which is odd as I think one may well be my next lens purchase, there is the Sigma 18-35 f/1.8. But although it is fast and wide to normal, and actually for the focal lengths concerned relatively small, a lot of folks seem to think it is a heavy lens.

Also on crop, 35mm is on the long end of normal, which I would suggest runs to include the 28 to 35mm range. For Canon crop cameras 22mm is the equivalent to the classic FF 35mm focal length. I would really like to see Canon offering a nice f/1.8 or even f/1.4 15mm and 22mm in an EF-s mount for the crop EOS bodies. I am sure there are a lot of folks out there who are shooting 7D's etc because they spend a lot of time focal length limited with long lenses, that would apreciate good lenses in those classic focal length field of views.

Alan

As others have mentioned for small the 24mm f2.8 is great.

For me. I had a 50 f1.4 lens, loved to thin dog and wanted wider.
Rather than compromising on speed, I saved up my cash and bought the 24L II f1.4

On my T4i it weighed a ton but man was it exactly what I wanted. Much wider than my 50mm and just as fast.

If you are not happy with the new 24mm f2.8 pancake. There are few option except for the ones already listed.

Another vote for the Siggy 18-35 f1.8. It's (relatively) wide and very fast. "Small" is a relative term. It's no pancake for sure and it has some heft. It's not going to ruin your shoulder walking around with it all day, though.

If you're looking to keep the camera and lens pocketable (large coat pockets), then the 24mm f2.8 pancake is your best option.

Here's a shot with the Siggy 18-35mm f1.8 on an SL1.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/q4HZ​TX

M_Six wrote in post #17805151
Another vote for the Siggy 18-35 f1.8. It's (relatively) wide and very fast. "Small" is a relative term. It's no pancake for sure and it has some heft. It's not going to ruin your shoulder walking around with it all day, though.

If you're looking to keep the camera and lens pocketable (large coat pockets), then the 24mm f2.8 pancake is your best option.

Here's a shot with the Siggy 18-35mm f1.8 on an SL1.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/q4HZ​TX Holy Name Cathedral by Mark Johnson, on Flickr

That is beautiful!