What are your favorite lenses- Canon EOS users...

So, what are your favorite lenses to use for your EOS camera. Just curious to know, for all categories: macro, portraits, zoom, wide,

prime. No right or wrong answers, just looking to see what other EOS users like to use. :)

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My 28-70mm/2.8L, it's an old one, but still my favourite. It's sharp, has very good contrast and excellent colors. And

even on my crop camera it has a good zoom range. It's on my camera all the time.

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My 50mm/1.4, I used it a lot on film camera's, but on my crop camera it's a range I don't use very often. I will use it a lot

again when I go (back) to FF.

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I used the 17-40mm/4L on a 5D, and I find it a very nice combination, because of the nice wide-angle range. Also used

the Sigma 12-24 on a crop body, which is a good lens as well and results in almost the same range ... it's a really nice

range to shoot with.

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Played around with the 70-200mm/4 IS and the 70-200mm/2.8 IS, of which the latter is just a tank. They are really nice

lenses and I will get either some day soon. Also used the 24-105mm/4L IS, which is also a very nice lens, but I always

tend to miss the 2.8 when I have this one.

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The 50 f/1.4 and the 35 f/2 .

On my 5D, it's got to be the 70-200/2.8 IS, although the 24-105 sits on it most of the time.

 

On the 40D it would be the 300/4 IS (+/-1.4x), a combination that gives excellent length and resolution, but is still light and easily hand held.

 

On the 20D, it would be the 70-200/4, another nice and light combination, which gets used for most purposes. However, the 50/1.8 generally sits on that body.

Just throwing the camera in the bag: 50/1.8 (lightweight, fast, nice IQ)

 

I'm always having fun when using that lens.

 

 

Serious photography: 70-200/4L IS (handles like a dream, good reach, great IQ)

 

I always feel great when using this lens.

 

 

Both on a crop factor camera (400D) by the way.

EF 85/1.8 - EF 50/1.4 - Sigma 30/1.4 (all on a crop 1.6)

On a 400D:

 

I use the 17-40 for landscape - a great all round lens for that purpose. Feels rugged. Great results. People often talk

about the benefits of having something wider but if anything I tend to want the opposite i.e. to have a longer range to

pick out details in a landscape.

 

I use Canon's 50 / 1.8 for people, mostly using natural light - It's noisy and feels like it will fall apart in your hands but

the combination of sharpness, weight and aperture means that it is astonishingly good value (I have a limited

budget!) ... I love the results and also love using a prime for people work as losing one thing to think about helps me

focus my mind on the subject.

generally ef135 good casual portraits and short tele, low light and close shots Zuiko 50 f1.4, zeiss 50 & 80 with tripod stuff :)

Hi, Julian, if I may. I'm from Namibia and am following the different threads and the two lenses that you mentioned, namely,

17-40, f/4 and 50mm, f/1.8, are also on my list. I also want to include the 85mm, f/1.8 for outside portraits. I want to get the

Canon 40D as a starting body with the mentioned lenses to do weddings and general people photography.

 

I have had Minolta film equipment, but it's time to change to digital for me. What do you think of those lenses and their

coverage when one is on a thin budget, mainly because of our poor exchange rate to the US$ (8.00)?

Have _had_ Minolta equipment, or still have? If so, don't they fit the Sony Alpha bodies?

Martijn, I had Tokina ATX-Pro lenses to go with the two Minolta bodies, which I sold. I still have the bodies, since the buyer

of the lenses have the new Sony bodies. I believe that Canon has very good equipment, especially lenses and that's why

I'm changing. Should I pay more and go for the 50D when it comes out?

In order of most favourite first: 70-200/2.8L IS, 24-70/4L, 300/4L IS, 17-40L, &100/2.8 Macro USM; regardless of camera.

Johan, compare the 40D and 50D specs and decide yourself if it's worth the extra money. The 50D is basically a 40D with

a new sensor and a better LCD. I would personally buy a nice lens to go with the 40D.

Thanks Martijn!

The 85/1.2 and 180/3.5 Macro are my favourites, although I use the 24-70/2.8 and 17-40/4 more.

Right now my favorite is the canon 17-85 USM IS

 

But others are the 85mm 1.8 and the 50m 1.8 both canons

 

I use the 40d

In order of preference: 24-70mm f/2.8L, then 135mm f/2.0L, then 100mm f2.8 Macro. I seldom use the 17-40mm or the 200mm.

On my 40D

 

Sigma 30 1.4

Sigma 50 1.4

Tamron 17-50

EF 70-300 IS

 

in that order. I really like prime lenses. Next purchase might be 85 f1.8 and 100 f2

On a 5D, 24-70mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.2 indoors. I used the 24-105 for over 2 years, but I take better pictures with

the 24-70mm.

70-200mm f/2.8L IS outdoors when I want to lug it, 135mm f/2 when I don't. I mostly take "environmental portraits" of

my daughter.

 

For travel, the 17-40mm f/4L + 350D makes a very lightweight package that I like to grab-and-go with.

17-40/4L, 400/5.6L,100/2.8 USM Macro

 

Or at least, I use those lenses the most these days, although the 10-22 may start moving up in the ranks if we get

some rain.

24-70 F2.8 L

 

It works in most situations, it's fast, it's sharp. If I had to choose just one lens to own, it would be that one.

300mm f/2.8 IS and 500mm f/4 IS.

EF-S 17-55 F2.8 IS. The best general purpose zoom I have ever used on an APS-C body.

 

For full frame I would have to say I really like the 24-105 F4 IS L, a really nice lens indeed.

5D=24-105mm F/4 L IS is my favorite and most used combination.

30D=70-200mm F/2.8 L IS is my favorite combination, but i probably use the Sigma 18-200mm OS more on this body.

Right now it's the EF-S 17-85 IS, if only for it's focal length range on my XT/350D. However, I just bought the EF 70-

200 f/4L though, so we'll see how long that lasts.