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Hi for a while now ive been thinking of adding a lens to my kit for portraits & weddings etc. In my kit I currently have a Tamron 17-50mm SP f2.8 Non VC and a Tamron 55-200mm.

I'm starting to do a few more wedding shoots now and also starting to do quite a few events and festivals and finding the 17-50 is a little to wide and doesnt quite have enough reach. Im thinking that something around the 28-70mm ish would do the trick but would need to be around an F2.8 constant as I often shoot in low light.

I've looked at the Tamron 28-75mm SP F2.8 and the Sigma 28-70mm F2.8 DF and both seem quite nice but dont have many more details than that.

Any help or suggestions would be most welcome.

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Dazz
 
28mm often isn't quite wide enough for small groups on a cropped sensor. Have you thought of the Sigma ƒ/2.8 50-150mm?
 
Iris said:
My new baby, love this lens
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I only had mine a day and fallen in love with this lens already :love:

Just cant fault it for the money, especially if you can find a good used one for sale.
 
i recently picked up a sigma 24-70 2.8 and it's given me good results so far. if you are looking at the tamron/sigma lenses i'm guessing that price is an issue here so the £1000+ for the canon 24-70 2.8L might be too much at the minute.

the sigma can be picked up for a fraction of that, check the likes of mpb(link at the top of the page), ffordes or the classifieds here if you have access to them.

if you want examples of shots taken with the sigma let me know.

keith
 
I would rate the tokina 50-135 above the sigma 50-150, purely in terms of build quality alone. never shot the 2 side by side but I hear the tokina is perhaps a touch better, AF is slightly noisy (although accurate), sigma is speedy HSM but prone to front focussing.

I'd still probably find the extra cash for the canon, the f4 non IS if you're on a budget

These are people's big days you're potentially ruining, you're presumably being paid, i'm not sure i'd be willing to trust that to a third party unless I had 5,000 in focus shots and I knew the lens wouldn't crap out on me
 
I had the Sigma 50-150mm and found it good, although I then sold it when I got the canon 50mm f1.4 as I found the pictures from the F1.4 really had that wow factor compared. Further down the line I have added the Canon 135mm f2.

I think the question is if the OP is wanting one lens to do all or happy to either change lenses during a wedding or even use a prime. The prime (if F2 or below) will be better for indoors and bokeh.
 
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