Quote Originally Posted by jrw View Post
Well it would seem that Canon has managed to dangle yet another lens in front of us this year to tempt the money out of our pockets. Has the time finally come to replace my trusty 24-105 now that my work is starting to include a lot more indoor shots? I know that I'd miss the reach when walking around with one camera body but when on shoots I always have multiple bodies anyways. Decisions, decisions, decisions, nope definitely waffling. Lack of IS, sigh.
Seriously on the lack of IS! Canon seems to be planting IS on everything it touches except for what really needs it! 24-70 is clearly a mainly hand-held walk-around lens. Also will be used INSIDE a lot, where there is no bright sun for abundant light. Seems like a great place for IS to allow a slower shutter w/o blurr, no?
But look at the latest 400, 500, 600 lenses, which ALL have IS, but which will nearly never be used inside, which will often be on a tripod or monopod, which will be usually used in bright sunlight, and which will probably be used at high shutter speed negating need for IS.

This just seems odd.