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Originally Posted by HPFREAK
Since I got started in this hobby(for me), I have found that choosing a lens is one of the most difficult choices I have made in any hobby including cars, computers, and girlfriends. The reason is the costs invloved with these L lenses are such that you need to make sure it is something you will need. I bought the 70-200 F4 IS used from Samy's Camera here locally since I got it for 850 and new they are 1131 from B&H who has the best price right now. I tried the 15-85, 17-40, Sigma 10-20, tamron 12-24, Tokina 11-16 and I did not like any of them for the money and the only lens that would be usefull on my future 5D is the 17-40 and it has no IS which is going to be improtant for me long term as I get old.lol We can not always grab shutter speeds over 1/200th when stopping down to F11+. I like to be able to get those 1/15th shots and have them look sharp. The best I managed with no IS is 1/100th and got a pretty sharp image.
My next lens will be the 16-35L with the 5D. I almost got the canon 10-22 but again it is an EFS lens so it basically useless for the 5D. Once I get the 5D I plan to sell the T2i. The Crop body I will get will likely be the 7D since it has awesome AF and features. Crops are helpful with the 70-200 since you get that extra 100mm focal length on the 7D's 1.5x crop.
Anyway after I just saw a review of NIK software Viveza 2 of this guy who said "oh I whipped out my Canon 800mm Prime to snap a pic of this bird, and here is a link to it...For $14,000!!!lol Ya you better be pretty sure that is something useful, and you are going to make the money back on your photos.
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Get IS whenever you can, it's worth the extra money. They open up all kinds of night shooting opportunities for you. Even with IS, you'll want a solid tripod for those stopped-down scenics at low ISO, even in the daylight.
If a 5D isn't too far in the distance, then the 24-105mm f/4L IS is excellent. It's true wide-angle to portrait length with IS. The 16-35mm is also truly excellent, but 16mm is VERY wide on a FF sensor. It's only needed for certain specialty shooting. I prefer my 24-105mm for its versatility and when I need a really wide image I stitch together a panorama.
Why do you mention the 7D? It's a 1.6x crop, BTW. It's a great camera, I own it and the 5D MkII, but it's more of a sports/wildlife body for most of us. I've got a 500mm on my 7D for wildlife and either the 70-200mm or 24-105mm on the 5D MkII for almost everything else. Once in a blue moon I put the 70-200mm and the 1.4x TC on the 7D for shooting relatively large animals or close animals.
Here's an example of the 24-105mm on the 5D MkII, with four or five images stitched together:
Sailing heaven, the British Virgin Islands as seen from Tortola by
dcstep, on Flickr