Thanks again for all imput!


Neuro, yes i had that belife aswell, but in this thread even the chapest standard lens seems to outperfom the 17-40 and that realy rocked my world, so to speak.


Sharpness is important, but colors just aswell when it comes to the dramatic landscapes, i just have to look at more pictures from the different lenses i think to make my own opinion on what suits my needs, sharpness vs. colorvise. The 10-22 if appeling for its range i must say, and the 24-70 for its performance, but they are still a bit above what i hoped to budget.


My plan is to fit the lens on the 50d body and use the Cokin P ND system, that will go with both the 50/1.8 MKII and the 70-200/4 (yes i shoot landscapes with that to, not well but i do


No dubt that both the canon 17-55 and 15-85 performs well, aswell as the Tokina and Sigma, witch seems to be the most bang fpr the buck when boughtbrand-new, but they are hard to comeby here and when on sale would raise the budget by 60+% (no upper limit at 100% of new-price, you know the market...)


Alot to think about and to compare, i am glad i raised this before my "big" mountain expedition (Just 2 weeks). The FF factor is realy not "that" (the "" meens that it is, learned form a teen..) important, but i like the tought of having a base-set of lenses that will go with any body that i can afford.


If having to scale the impostance of things, i whink i would go like this:


Lifelike Color


against-the-sun-compability (sorry i do npt know the proper word for that)


Sharpness


Taking the Cookin P filter system (The Lee ND