Choose Two Lenses

[jfindley]

If you could only have two lenses with a camera body with a 1.6 crop, and budget wasn

[neuroanatomist]

I'd pick the EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS and the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II. Only downside is the weight of the 70-200/2.8 for travel, and that's a major concern, the 70-200mm f/4L IS instead. But for portraits, I'd take the f/2.8 over the f/4 for the additional OOF blur.

[Kayaker72]

Personally, I would repeat what I did buy, the EFS 15-85, the EF 100-400 and a flash. With those two lenses I cover very wide focal range with the weak point being the fact they are "slow," which the flash helps mitigate.


But with your focus, I would pick from the 15-85 and the 17-55 for a general purpose lens and from one of the 70-200 mm L lenses, the 70-300 L, and the 100-400 L for a telephoto lens. Which lens would depend upon your ratio in you focus and what you do while traveling. But, assuming your travel is more of sight seeing and not wildlife viewing, and by general photography you mean people, I would probably end up with exactly what Neuro recommended, the EFS 17-55 f/2.8 and the EF 70-200 f/2.8 L II IS.

[Jon Ruyle]

I'm a bit late to the discussion, but...

I'd pick the EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS and the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II.

I agree exactly. IMO the only difficulty in this choice is that it would leave me macroless. If I felt this was unacceptable (and I almost do) I would replace one these lenses (a tough choice which) with the 100 IS macro.

[Dr Croubie]

70-200 f/2.8 L IS doesn

[Jon Ruyle]

70-200 f/2.8 L IS doesn't exactly leave you macroless, I use my 70-300L with Kenko tubes and get some decent macro shots.

True. I used to use my 70-200 f/2.8 IS with extension tubes (mark 1) for butterflies. But a macro lens is still better for macro shots.

[thekingb]

When outdoors, my 70-300L is on my camera most of the time. Extremely versatile and so close in IQ to the 70-200 f/4L IS (which I used to own but sold for the extra range). It

[HDNitehawk]

and budget wasn't a big deal which lenses would you choose?

You did say which "would you choose"? That would be the 500mm F4 L and the 24mm F1.4 L II.


Now if you had said "which would you choose that seem to fitmy needs",I would go with what Neuro suggested.

[Rocco]

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[Kayaker72]

BTW, if you do get the 70-200 mm f/2.8 II, I would also consider the 1.4x and 2x extenders. They would make the 70-200 mm f/2.8 equivalent to a 90-280 mm f/4 (with 1.4x) or a 140-400 mm f/5.6 (with the 2x) lens. I