Q for Canon shooters. Next Lens?

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Question for Cannon Shooters. Assuming you have at lease one, maybe more, lens for your Canon Camera, what do you see as your next lens and why?
 
28-300 or 35-350 to replace my dead lens.

Poss. a 100-400.


BUT, I must rape, pillage and plunder a small NM town to do so.
 
28-300 or 35-350 to replace my dead lens.

Poss. a 100-400.


BUT, I must rape, pillage and plunder a small NM town to do so.

Ha! I know a little town just a bit north-ish of Albuquerque :barbershop_quartet_member:

I would absolutely love that new 100-400 L lens, but it's a bit on the pricey for me at this time (Maybe someday but I'd need to sell a couple other lenses). I've been thinking about a (used or refurbished) Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro lens. I'm pretty well covered with focal ranges from 14mm up to 600mm, but I don't have anything that would be good for Macro.
 
70-200mm f4 L, because I don't have one xD.

Then a 24-70mm f2.8 L, then possibly a 100-400mm then maybe a 300mm f2.8.
 
I've been thinking about a (used or refurbished) Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro lens. I'm pretty well covered with focal ranges from 14mm up to 600mm, but I don't have anything that would be good for Macro.

There's one in the buy and sell right now.

I'd like a 70-200mm f4 L, but would rather use that money towards a 500mm f4 L. :drool2:
 
I'd like a 70-200mm f4 L, but would rather use that money towards a 500mm f4 L. :drool2:

I have that lens (the non-IS version). In was the first "L" lens that I bought (not counting the 24-105 that came with my original 1st Gen 7D). The non-IS f4 is very affordable and a really great lens in most situations. I do wish mine had IS sometimes though.
 
I do not understand why the question.
If you are planing YOUR next lens, it should be based on what YOU need/want, NOT what someone else needs/wants.
My needs/wants may be and probably is totally different than yours.
 
Canon's older EF 100mm f/2.8 IF macro, the non-IS model, has a rough-looking diaphragm shape when OOF specular highlights are prominent in the shot ... you might look into the lens carefully before buying a macro telephoto. This is the Internal Focus model, or the second iteration. The first was NOT internal focusing; the third 100mm EF macro is the IS-L version.

Canon has a really nice 100mm f/2 conventional tele, which has not been popular, despite being a good lens.
 
I do not understand why the question.
If you are planing YOUR next lens, it should be based on what YOU need/want, NOT what someone else needs/wants.
My needs/wants may be and probably is totally different than yours.
with respect to you....
I have done much the same in the past.

My reason is so that I have feedback from people who have actually used it, and either reccomend or not reccomed something.

But thats me.
 
I do not understand why the question.
If you are planing YOUR next lens, it should be based on what YOU need/want, NOT what someone else needs/wants.
My needs/wants may be and probably is totally different than yours.
with respect to you....
I have done much the same in the past.

My reason is so that I have feedback from people who have actually used it, and either reccomend or not reccomed something.

But thats me.

I still don't get it.
The OP basically cast a post for respond for any lens from Ultra-wide to Ultra-tele.
If I'm looking at a 1000mm lens, and he is thinking wide or macro, then my response is not relevant at all.
At least narrow it down.
I'm looking for a macro lens, or wide lens, or . . .
Or, I am looking for help planning my lens kit. Here is what I have and what I shoot/want to shoot.​
 
I guess the OP was just looking for Lens talk. I see it as a perfectly natural forum behavior

If he was really looking for recommendations, perhaps he should've been more specific about what he already has.

Perhaps there will be someone who brings up a very intriguing lens. The Canon company makes a wide variety of lenses from very short to very long, both zoom and prime.
 
I do not understand why the question.
If you are planing YOUR next lens, it should be based on what YOU need/want, NOT what someone else needs/wants.
My needs/wants may be and probably is totally different than yours.

My purpose was not to solicit feedback for myself. My purpose for the question was a simple one - just to have a fun conversation with fellow board members. That's all. (I have been running a car-related forum for 20 years and we have these kinds of conversations all the time). It's just a way to get to know each other.
 
I really don't know what's next for a lens. I think I've finally figured out what I'm going to do camera wise so maybe a wide or widish prime? Will have to wait and see what piques my interest.
 
I do not understand why the question.
If you are planing YOUR next lens, it should be based on what YOU need/want, NOT what someone else needs/wants.
My needs/wants may be and probably is totally different than yours.

My purpose was not to solicit feedback for myself. My purpose for the question was a simple one - just to have a fun conversation with fellow board members. That's all. (I have been running a car-related forum for 20 years and we have these kinds of conversations all the time). It's just a way to get to know each other.

OK
There are so many posts asking for advice on next camera and lens, that I interpreted your post as asking for advice on your next lens.
 

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