I've opted for zooms over primes, for the most part.
My first eos mount lens purchase was LN "used" 14mm f2.8 Tamron. I believe Tamron has discontinued it.
Then a year or so later I added brand new:
Canon made
16-35mm 2.8L II
50mm f2.5 Macro
24-70mm 2.8L and I got an exceptional copy. Lots of bad press on earlier ones.
100mm f2.8 USM Macro
70-200mm 2.8L IS
300mm f4 IS. I really considered the 2.8 IS and should have bought it for $950 less last Christmas 2008. I won't pay 25% more now so I wait for dollar to yen exchange trade to improve.
1.4x II TC
2x II TC
12mm II Extension Tube
25mm II Extension Tube
The 12mm turns my 70-200mm 2.8L IS into a handy image stabilized fast aperture macro zoom and it retains all metadata with no additional effort, of course.
I guess my kit is complete as I bought both cable releases and fast aperture glass focus screens and grid screen too for my pair of 5D Classics. Still I'll likely add 17mm f4 Rotating Tilt& Shift. Its stuck at launch price so I hope it's cost won't inflate further. I'll wait till next Spring before our next big trip and get what should be the most innovative wide angle prime ever made: 17mm TS:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=cart_accessories&A=details...=606803&is=USA
I've always been drawn to ultrawide imaging. Canon does not let me down. Glad I bought when I did as everything went up in price. I added Nikon just to drive their 14-24mm 2.8: The King of Ultrawide Imaging. No regrets, just a bit of complications since the wife LOVES my D700. It replaced Pentax for her. She likes it so much I added 70-300 VRII right before it popped up an additional $130.
I find it amusing Pentaxian Dudes plead for smaller and smaller cameras and my wife choose bigger D700: The biggest Dslr I own.
Originally posted by nostatic I've never been much into wide angle, but for a recent project I was shooting inside an 8'x40' space and needed as much coverage as I could get. I picked up the 16-35/2.8 for the 5D2 and headed down to the location. Took a few hundred stills as well as some video. Was happy with the results and I finally got some "looks" that I previously hadn't been able to achieve shooting the DLux4 @ 24mm and Pentax @ 24mm (effective).
Saturday I went to a friend's wedding and snapped a hundred or so shots. I just took the 24-105/4 and oddly enough I found myself really missing the range between 16-24mm. Then today I was doing a walkabout with the 70-200/4 and realized that I "see" that range pretty well.
Interesting. I'm wondering about a "kit" that is 16-35/2.8, 50/1.2, 70-200/4. I never thought I'd be into wide, but being forced to shoot it opened my eyes (so to speak).
Last edited by Samsungian; 10-15-2009 at 04:32 PM.