YOUR first L lens?

mannetti21 wrote in post #15071382
70-200II...and it was all downhill from there

well done. It's my absolute favorite lens, easily. It stuns me every time I load pictures into lightroom.

Nothing else is as good, in my opinion (save for the 200 f2). So in technicall, in my opinion, it would all be "downhill" from there

My first was the 24-105 and of course I was hooked on L.

My first was the 70-200 2.8 IS.

My first was a 70-200 f/4

fishinfool wrote in post #15071899
My first was the 24-105 and of course I was hooked on L.

Ditto

Just got my first L...a 70-200 f/4 just a couple months since picking up my first DSLR. Having fun!

I waited for one of those double rebate events and bought the 24L II, the 24-70L, and the 70-200L II IS. They're all big and heavy, the way I like them.

24-105 was my first. Now have 70-200 f4 and 16-35. It's hard to go back to just "regular" lens.

My first and only is the 70-200mm f/4 non IS. I really want to get the 24-105 but being in college that is not going to happen anytime soon.

My first was also the 70-200 f4 non is. Seeing as it was cheap. Just last year. I thought I'd struggle to get another. Now I've had 2 24-105, 24-70, 135 and I just purchased a 70-200 f/2.8 is mk 2. It's a slippery slope haha

Mine was the 70-200 F4L IS and I love it. 24-105 is my next L lens. And I'll still keep my 17-55 as a wide angle lens and 24-105 as a walk around.

17-40L

Back at the end of '07, I returned a Rebel XT to Walmart and exchanged it for the new XTi. Within a month or two, I purchased an EF TSE-24mm L lens for architecture work (read "hobby"), but sold it when I switched to Nikon. After a couple of years with Nikon, and then Pentax, I returned to Canon. Last year, I bought a used 70-200 f/4 IS lens. It didn't have the reach I wanted for wildlife at the zoo and wild animal park, so I bought a gently-used 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L a couple of weeks ago and sold the 70-200. The pics I've gotten so far have been awesome, but I have yet to get to the zoo. Definitely, not a lens to handhold!

24-105mm f4 was my first since it came with my 5DIII along with 85mm f1.2 LII. Since then, I sold both lenses and bought 70-200mm mkii and my 24-70mm f2.8 LII arrived 2 days ago.
New 24-70 LII will replace my 35 and 50mm primes.

First was the 200 2.8 this past July that I fell in love with, but later sold for the drainpipe, which I equally love.

In my quest to find the perfect lenses, along the way I have also briefly owned a 24-105, 17-35, and twice had a 17-40 before settling on the 4 I have. I've been able to turn all of them around for a profit to help fund my current collection.