Buying two lenses for a Canon XTI, a 24-70 f/2.8 and a 70-200 f/2.8 at $200-500 per, any recommendations?

Question

All brand/configuration recommendations are welcome--camera use will be landscape and portrait, primarily outdoors.

Answer 1

While those are both excellent lenses, neither is good for shooting landscapes ... for that you will need the Canon 10-22 mm lens.

Answer 2

Bear in mind your camera has a 1.6x conversion factor, so that a 24 will behave more like a 38mm, not a conventional or classic landscape focal length (but thats not to say it won't suit certain compositions)  however although you'll probably get a sigma 24-60 or 28-70 within budget it won't be a constant f2.8, it will drop to f4 at the far end of the zoom.

You won't get anything new in the 70-200 range at f2.8 for that kind of cash.

Look for a used 70-210 constant f4 canon EF beercan zoom or if you are very lucky, a used 70-200 f4 L.

Answer 3

You're talking about American dollars.. the Canon 24-70 mm f 2.8 lens is $1,200 and the other one is $1,200 (no IS) and $1,500 or so with IS.

Answer 4

I would go with L series of course but your not going to get a good lens for those prices with a f/2.8

the 70-200 with the is and all the trimmings at f/2.8 is like 1800 bucks.  24-70 is a little less but not much.  Don't buy crappy lenses.  XTI is a pretty good camera.  I would rather get a great lens and use the XTI than upgrade to one of the pro model cameras.

Answer 5

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