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Old 01-24-2007, 07:46 AM   #5
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!
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.
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