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One Stop-Digital -Hong Kong – about to purchase 5D Mark ii
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brownie wrote:
I have two 40D bodies and the quality from them is really down to the lenses I use.
Camera bodies alone wont make for a better photographer and as some people
have commented…get the good lenses first.
Last Saturday morning both myself and steelydan were out early down Wexford
way and I am telling you this as an example of getting a good lense ahead of a
different body…John has an 1D MkII and I had the 40D….we came upon a lovely
dawn scene with the rising sun into our eyes….we both set up and were both using
the Canon 70-200 f4 lense…mine has image stabiliser and Johns had’nt…he kept getting
flare in his shots and I was’nt…he changed cameras as he has a 40D as well but to no
avail…still getting flare…finally he asked could he use my (Is) lense and would you
believe it, no flare…we came to the conclusion that it was obviously the dearer
lense had better quality glass in it even though they were both Canon but mine had IS.
Get your lenses and keep the 40D.Noel Browne.
Hi Noel. You both had Canon 70-200 f4 with L glass, but I don’t understand how the IS would have any effect on the ‘flare’??
I would imagine that the glass would be equal in both lens. I’m just a bit puzzled on this one .Pat :?
Thanks a million for all of your comments. I suppose that the main attraction for me was the full frame on the 5D but I can honestly say that I like the 40D and got some great shots since I bought it last year. I dont need a camcorder as I have a great Sony one. I will take your advice and buy the good lenses. I will price around to see where I can get the best prices. Thanks again
Do not buy a 24-105 L lens, I have read many reports bout this glass
and it is not that good, It is a Kit L Lens, go to any of the other photography
forums and there are a lot of them for sale.You would be better off going for the 24-70 f2.8 L and the 70-200f2.8 IS L.
I Have the 5D MKI and wouldnt even consider moving to the 5D MKII.
As some of the advice here states, buy good glass first!
Regarding the 17-40 F4L . . . not that great especially on the 5D MK II
Canon are bringing out newer versions of their L lenses to perform with the
higher Megapixels of the new Pro cameras.I had the 17-40 F4 L and I tested it against the Sigma 12-24 and 15-30
the 15-30 was just as good a performer IQ wise as the 17-40.Thanks for your advice Aoluain. I think that I will stick to the 40D and spend money on glass and work from there. I want to purchase within the next few weeks.
I will be going to New York in Jan ’10 anyhow and may buy a few extra bits and pieces there. Would the 24-70 f2.8 L lens be good for portraits. I do not know anything about this lens. I usually use my 50mm f1.4 for portraits but believe it or not the 28-135 IS takes fairly ok portrait shots. If not, is there something better out there at this level of quality? I will be studying Portraiture from Oct to April ’10. I am not just into Portraiture, I love snapping a variety of everything.
We will have the hot air baloons back again in Sept. I missed this last year and I have visions of using a 70-200mm f2.8 L IS USM to snap this event.aoluain wrote:
Do not buy a 24-105 L lens, I have read many reports bout this glass
and it is not that good, It is a Kit L Lens, go to any of the other photography
forums and there are a lot of them for sale.You would be better off going for the 24-70 f2.8 L and the 70-200f2.8 IS L.
I Have the 5D MKI and wouldnt even consider moving to the 5D MKII.
As some of the advice here states, buy good glass first!
Regarding the 17-40 F4L . . . not that great especially on the 5D MK II
Canon are bringing out newer versions of their L lenses to perform with the
higher Megapixels of the new Pro cameras.I had the 17-40 F4 L and I tested it against the Sigma 12-24 and 15-30
the 15-30 was just as good a performer IQ wise as the 17-40.A couple of points, my 24-105L is the weakest of my lenses, so I have been under impressed by it. I have had it recalibrated by Canon and they noted that it was not quite as sharp as others they have seen. It is an earlier model, so there seems to be variations.
Another key point is that the 40D cropped sensor will be less critical of lenses. The 17-40mm on a 40D is a super combination, as it keeps away from the corners of the lens.
However, there is an important point to your post – when you are talking about these high level full frame cameras, there is a justification in getting the top glass to go with them (e.g. the 16-35mm instead of the 17-40mm, 24-70mm instead of the 24-105mm) and to move towards faster (read f2.8) gear. This is mega money land, and unless you are a professional or very rich, IMO there seems to be little justification to move in this direction.
I have a theory (which applies to things other than photography) that once you have good enough equipment, you’d be much better off putting the money into a few suitable lessons rather than further hardware, as it is likely to yield better results.
I have bought numerous lenses and equipment in general
and always ended up selling it at a massive loss.If I was to start again I would buy the best I could afford
and have done with it. I would never buy EF-S lenses again either
because wheny you move up to full frame they cannot be used.My brother uses 3 lenses and a tele converter . . .
12-24, 24-70 f2.8 L, 70-200 F2.8 IS L with a 2X converter, simple kit
covers 12 – 400.Canon’s speciality is long tele’s for Pro sports photography.
For portraits It is recomended that lenses around the 80mm
focal length is used which would make sense with your 50mm 1.4
and I think generally a fast 80mm prime is used, I hear that that 50mm 1.4 lens is quite good,
so unless you are going to buy the new 50L 1.2 or [url=hhttp://slrlensreview.com/web/carl-zeiss-slr-lenses-51/standard-slr-lenses-94/284-carl-zeiss-planar-t-50mm-f14-zf-lens-review.html/:o0slg6c2]zeiss 50 1.4[/url:o0slg6c2]my 2 cents worth
Pat…we were just as puzzled by the 70-200f4 lenses but it happened and
we tried everything else and that was the conclusion we came to.Noel.
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