the perfect storm -- birthday, bonus from work, and Canon rebates !!!!!

Superb choices, David. Hard to do much better. Enjoy my friend.

congrats on the new additions...hows the sharpness compared to ur 135L?

Great additions to your tools. I too am caught in the perfect storm and will succumb to a 5D and 17-40 soon.

Congrats on a couple of awesome lenses

JaGWiRE wrote in post #2172300
I love when you have a little time in your life (we all have this I think at one time or another) where everything seems to be going right and the way you wanted .

With me, that's always followed by an enourmous disaster / kick in the nether region / death / or some other bad thing...

I think I must have pissed off someone really high up at some point.

Oh well, live it up while you can!!!

And congrats on the lenses!

thanks y'all for the comments. flip, I will probably do some comparison shots when I've got free time. the canon 70-200 is sharp, but so was my sigma. I think the biggest difference may be in build, USM, weathersealing, and IS.

pickle -- sorry about the kicks. wear a cup.

I took the new lens to hockey, got >>>these<<< shots. The lens certainly focusses quickly.

kind regards, all.

Aww, stop taunting me with the combo I wan't some day. Congrats on the purchase. That picture of the landscape in your dogs eye is amazing.


Andrew.