New equipment alert!
It just goes to show you how much a go-getter I am, when following something I am really passionate about. I have only had my new camera for 2 weeks, and yet I have already managed to upgrade my equipment again.
Not the camera of course! My Canon EOS 5D Mark II is a keeper! What I decided to upgrade, though, was the lens. The EF 70-200 F4L USM is a good lens, don't get me wrong. I was able to get some nice closeups of medium sized birds and some nice street photographs. But I do miss the wide angle. And then there's the light. At f4, the lens is quite difficult to use in poorly lit indoor settings. Coupled with the fact that it's not an IS lens, you will either see the ISO getting cranked up to screaming heights or the shutter speeds dwindling down to "tripod only" territory. This is surely going to pose a problem when the fall and winter months set in and light all of a sudden becomes a scarce and precious commodity.
So a trip to the camera store was in due. And yet another sacrifice had to be made. Well, make that two. I already shelled out the big bucks, but now I will need to sell my EF 70-200 F4L USM to at least get half the money I paid for the new one back. So which lens is it?
Well, I have read countless reviews about it on the internet. It's supposed to be Canon's bread and butter lens for photojournalists and wedding photographers. So it's a professional, high-grade lens we are talking about here, one of the most popular in Canon's lineup of "L" lenses. It has received praises from many photographers, taken many award-winning pictures, and portraits of countless celebrities (or so they say). When I look at the photography forums on the internet, this is the lens that many Canon users dream about.
And here it is: the Canon EF 24-70 F2.8L USM lens. Don't let the nomenclature fool you though. This lens might have a shorter focal length than the 70-200mm. But it has a 2.8 maximum wide aperture, meaning this lens is MASSIVE! Even more so than the 70-200. It is shorter, but it has more girth, and tips the scales at approximately 1kg, meaning my equipment just got heavier by about 300 grams. On the bright side, it's not as long as the 70-200, meaning the weight distribution is more even, making the camera easier to carry. All the photographs on my previous post were taken with this lens.
Attached to the EOS 5D Mark II you can see that this is really a huge but gorgeous piece of equipment. I think it would look more at home attached to Canon's 1D series of cameras. I do plan on getting a telezoom lens again in the future. But I would probably opt for the 2.8 version of the 70-200, probably even with the IS, even though that option costs 3 times as much as the f4, non-IS version. For the time being the Canon EF 24-70 F2.8L USM would have to do as the sole lens for my camera.
Not the camera of course! My Canon EOS 5D Mark II is a keeper! What I decided to upgrade, though, was the lens. The EF 70-200 F4L USM is a good lens, don't get me wrong. I was able to get some nice closeups of medium sized birds and some nice street photographs. But I do miss the wide angle. And then there's the light. At f4, the lens is quite difficult to use in poorly lit indoor settings. Coupled with the fact that it's not an IS lens, you will either see the ISO getting cranked up to screaming heights or the shutter speeds dwindling down to "tripod only" territory. This is surely going to pose a problem when the fall and winter months set in and light all of a sudden becomes a scarce and precious commodity.
So a trip to the camera store was in due. And yet another sacrifice had to be made. Well, make that two. I already shelled out the big bucks, but now I will need to sell my EF 70-200 F4L USM to at least get half the money I paid for the new one back. So which lens is it?
Well, I have read countless reviews about it on the internet. It's supposed to be Canon's bread and butter lens for photojournalists and wedding photographers. So it's a professional, high-grade lens we are talking about here, one of the most popular in Canon's lineup of "L" lenses. It has received praises from many photographers, taken many award-winning pictures, and portraits of countless celebrities (or so they say). When I look at the photography forums on the internet, this is the lens that many Canon users dream about.
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