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Hi all
I plan to do a lot more hill walking this year , so need a wide angle lens for the vistas.

I am considering the canon 15-85mm zoom seems to be well regarded and a step up from a kit lens and decent IQ for the money.

Any thoughts on this option or alternatives.

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John
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It's a brilliant lens, bought one for my son as a walkabout lens for his 600D
Depending what else you have, the other option would be the 10-22mm. It's small,light so easily goes in the camera bag,but at the time I had it, I ha dthe 24-105 on a crop.
If I wanted to carry just one lens,the15-85 would be a good choice
 
Hi
Thanks I need the focal length to bridge to 55 my next lens .

I have tamron 18-250 and canon 28 - 135 but not happy with them and both getting on now , plus a lot of crossover.

Fancy a good telephoto lens as well but to get 400 -600mm isn't in the budget.

Cheers
John
 
Hi
Whilst scouring ebay for deals on the above I noted the cannon 17-40 f4 L sells at veery reasonable prices.

Whilst not the focal range of the 15-85 would this not be an option?

Cheers
John
 
That is an EF lens for cameras with full frame sensors, your is a crop sensor by a factor of 1.6, so any EF lens you times the focal range by 1.6 to tell you what field of view you'd have, so a 17-40 on a crop sensor would be like a 27-64, not very useful.

You need EF-S lenses. Have you considered the Canon 10-18? Cheap and really very good.
 
Craigus said:
so any EF lens you times the focal range by 1.6
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That is true of any lens, be it EF or EF-S... but agree with the choice of the 10-18 which would give the equivalent of a 16-28mm...

However the 15 - 85 does give more choice with a wider focal range of equivalence 24 - 135mm...
 
15-85. Brilliant lens. Just do it, you won't regret it.

Yes, some people will tell you you need to go wider, like 10mm, but personally I'd be wary of that. Landscape photography with an ultra-wide lens tends all to easily to lead to a clichéd rock-in-the-foreground look.
 
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