ronald_tsang

Thanks for all your suggestions, but in the end, I'm going to start out with all primes.

 

35 f/2 + 85 f/1.8 + 135L

 

Again thanks, but I think learning with primes instead of zooms will make a world of difference for me. Wish you all the best!

No, I don't think you should, unless you really want to get a specific lens. You look like you cover most focal lengths, and with primes, it means that you have a light set of lenses that you would carry around. The 70-200 is about 3 pounds, and do you imagine you would carry it everywhere all the time? You will never regret having a nice set of primes that is much more portable than zooms.

Hi there. I will be purchasing the Canon 1D. That's the easy part,

can't wait to let her rip when I get it, but the hard part, trying to

get a complete system for my money. I will have a budget of about

$2000-2500 USD. With this amount, if it is possible, I would like to

get a complete system that would cover a focal range of about 15-

200. I would like to stick with canon, but I will not hesitate to

get sigmas. I am considering these two systems,

 

17-40L + 85 f1.8 + 135L with 1.4x + 500D

 

Or

 

24-70L + 70-200f/2.8L + 500D

 

I do not mind having a prime set of lenses, but zooms makes things

very easy. Question is, would this system be ideal for what I would

like to do, (in order of priority) street, sports(mainly hockey),

macro, landscape.

 

Hope to hear from you all!!

 

Whiskey