24-70mm question old versus coveted new one...

[Shea Design]

An IS version of this lens (24-70 f/2.8) has been rumored for many years, but I don't think it is the best candidate for the extra lens elements and electronics required. It is already pretty fast and IQ does degrade ever so slightly with the extra glass. Just taking a swag at it I'd say the IS adds between 3 & 6 hundred to the retail price of a lens.


Personally I bring flashes if I think light will be an issue, or at least a tripod. And BTW if they do come out with one I will happily pick up the non-IS version for the best price yet!


-Shea

[barba]

Just buy it.

[piiooo]

An IS version of this lens (24-70 f/2.8) has been rumored for many years

That's right.


Anyway, I had the same dilemma a year and a half ago. Long story short, I bought the 24-70 2.8L lens anyway. 18 months later, the IS version has still not arrived, but how many happy photos did I take with the lens? Priceless. []


I have to be honest, though, I use the 24-702.8 for portrait and indoor photography,which is roughly 25% of what I do. I also have the 24-105 4.0L IS, which I use primarily for landscapes and as allaround lens, because it is lighter and shorter, weather-sealed and has more reachas well asthe IS.

[alexniedra]

I also have the 24-105 4.0L IS, which I use primarily for landscapes and as allaround lens, because it is lighter and shorter, weather-sealed

Pardon my correction, but the 24-70 is weather-sealed as well, when used in combination when a weather-sealed body, of course. []

[piiooo]

Pardon my correction, but the 24-70 is weather-sealed as well, when used in combination when a weather-sealed body, of course. [img]/emoticons/emotion-1.gif[/img]

No offense taken, Alex. Right is right. []