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Originally Posted by MartijnGizmo
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Originally Posted by stmoritzer
24-70 is quite a big zoom range, a friend of mine ( 3/4-pro with a D200) didn't recommend me to buy a lense with that much zoom range.. the 17-40 sound good!
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Next advice: don't listen to that friend.  The 24-70 is among the sharpest zoomlenses that Canon offers. Contrast, bokeh and AF-speed are excellent. So I really think he's wrong and should try one himself. 
The 'safe' range for zoomlenses is around 3x zoom (70/24=2.9) but there are a lot of exceptions to that old rule-of-thumb. |
he's not a Canon man, so the comment was not specific about that lense
but any comment about some lenses is welcome since atm I'm looking for a DSLR camera (the two options are D80 or EOS 400D and some proper lenses).