New Lens too...is it Christmas!!!?

[jamison55]

This to me is far more exciting than the 30D (as good as that looks to me):

A new Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM!!!

Wow, the focal length I've been mourning since getting rid of my Sigma 18-50 with IS. At 17mm's you'll be able to handhold it down to 1/4 second! Night shots anyone?

Only $1150...

Looks like it could replace both my 17-40 and 28-70 (if the optics are any good). I expect to see a lot of used 24-105L's on the market soon!


Read about it here (scroll down): http://www.robgalbraith.com/public_files/Canon_EOS_30D_White_Paper.pdf

[coldrain]

$1150 is not "only" though... but a compact, f2.8 "standard zoom" of L quality is not bad indeed.

[cwphoto]

It's all 85mm f/1.2 L II USM interest here.:)

[cwphoto]

This to me is far more exciting than the 30D (as good as that looks to me):

A new Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM!!!

Wow, the focal length I've been mourning since getting rid of my Sigma 18-50 with IS. At 17mm's you'll be able to handhold it down to 1/4 second! Night shots anyone?

Only $1150...

Looks like it could replace both my 17-40 and 28-70 (if the optics are any good). I expect to see a lot of used 24-105L's on the market soon!


Read about it here (scroll down): http://www.robgalbraith.com/public_files/Canon_EOS_30D_White_Paper.pdf

Shit Jamie your wife's gonna kill you Man. This is gonna hurt you after just receiving your new magic drainpipe replacement.:D

[jamison55]

Nope, that's the great thing about working a normal 40 in addition to the weddings...the wedding income is mine to play with as I see fit! As long as I buy something that benefits her every once and a while I have free reign! Once I go full time, however, that all stops...

[cwphoto]

Nope, that's the great thing about working a normal 40 in addition to the weddings...the wedding income is mine to play with as I see fit! As long as I buy something that benefits her every once and a while I have free reign! Once I go full time, however, that all stops...

Well a 30D coupled with a magic 17-55mm f/2.8 IS benefits her doesn't it? In terms of more/better pictures of her little guy.:p

My missus sometimes tutt/tutts when a new lens arrives in the mail - but then I strap it on the camera and take some shots of the kids and all is (usually) forgiven.:D

[aparmley]

Yea. . . I still haven't really figured out the womans feelings on this stuff yet. She likes my photos and wants me to do more with it than I currently am doing. I'm pacing myself. . . She does understand the gear standpoint and she has brought it up in the past about understanding why I do turn some opportunities down - she seems to understand the confidence in gear /backup importance etc. So I suppose this is a good thing. But she does appreciate a little somethin-somethin for her now and again and currently is wanting one of those rather large somethin-somethins - :eek: so I must tread lightly at this point in time. . . I think I can sneek a 50 1.4 into the picture but anything else would be "taking" from what I could/should be looking at. . . Put it this way, she is eyeing rings and so am I, just not the same color and mine don't fit on fingers :D .

[TheObiJuan]

I am keeping my hopes high for this lens. Once high res jpegs become available wide open at all focals I will decide to plop down the $$.

[Rex914]

It's all 85mm f/1.2 L II USM interest here.:)

I'd be interested in seeing how much more it engulfs a Rebel XT. :)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000DZDTKU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[cdifoto]

I'd be interested in seeing how much more it engulfs a Rebel XT. :)

Buy the lens for me and I'll show ya. ;)

[24Peter]

I'd be interested in seeing how much more it engulfs a Rebel XT. :)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000DZDTKU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
My goodness - you could fit a small furry animal inside that lens...:eek: (Can't wait to see the responses to this one...:rolleyes: )

[coldrain]

Hamster Slow Motor

[sherlock]

LMAO!! :D What's the filter size on that bad boy?

[cwphoto]

LMAO!! :D What's the filter size on that bad boy?

Ironically it's only 72mm - same as a 35mm f/1.4 L USM.

[sherlock]

Haha, very ironic. It is pretty funny how that lens takes over the 30D body though.

[24Peter]

Nice hamster wheel! (Expensive too.:o )

So yeah it does look rather menacing on the front of the 30D. Did they shrink down the size of the body at all vs. the 20D?

[aparmley]

I would say no Pete - the 20D accessories are supposed to fit, i.e. battery grip - to me that would say the body has stayed the same.

[sherlock]

I would say no Pete - the 20D accessories are supposed to fit, i.e. battery grip - to me that would say the body has stayed the same.

So Canon didn't change it just enough so that everyone upgrading would have to buy a new grip? I was assuming that was a given. Interesting :)

[aparmley]

I'm pretty sure I read that some where, yep.

[Mr. Peabody]

Yeah, I read that too. I was glad to found out that the 30D also uses the BGE2 battery grip.

[ReF]

This to me is far more exciting than the 30D (as good as that looks to me):

A new Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM!!!

Wow, the focal length I've been mourning since getting rid of my Sigma 18-50 with IS. At 17mm's you'll be able to handhold it down to 1/4 second! Night shots anyone?

Only $1150...

Looks like it could replace both my 17-40 and 28-70 (if the optics are any good). I expect to see a lot of used 24-105L's on the market soon!


Read about it here (scroll down): http://www.robgalbraith.com/public_files/Canon_EOS_30D_White_Paper.pdf

the price sound pretty good to me. cheaper than the 16-35L (probably better flare resistance too) AND IS!
if ya sold both the 17-40 and 28-70 they sould pay for the ef-s right? seems you would get enough use out of it doing weddings that any kind of value drop in the future relating the reduced frame lenses would be negligible.
...i wonder why the EF-S part bothers me so much - seems like 1.6x will be around for quite a while