Michel Rabe wrote:I think you guys mean the 17-55mm 2.8 EF-S (not 18)?
To clarify, I'm talking about one of the lenses I have, the Canon EF-S 18-200mm that came with my Canon EOS 60D back in 2012. It's an f/3.5-5.6. Not a bad lens (probably professionals would say it's garbage, but I've taken tens of thousands of great looking photos with it, and the video I shot so far using it on the BMPCC 6K looks great). This is it:
https://www.amazon.com/Canon-18-200mm-3-5-5-6-Standard-Cameras/dp/B001ET6QFY?th=1The one thing I hate about this lens is that the mechanism for which you zoom in and out is very loose, so as long as you're shooting horizontally, you're fine, but try to shoot downwards or upwards more than 40º while you're zoomed in, and if you're shooting up, it will recede back, and if shooting down, it will extend. Should come with some type of adjustment but I haven't seen one. Also, I hate that to zoom in you have to to rotate the thing counterclockwise, it's totally backwards, and I keep moving it clockwise to zoom in. But I think this might be a characteristic of EF Mount lenses. I know Micro 4/3 lenses have that the way it's supposed to be.
Michel Rabe wrote:Your 18-200 f5.6 cannot nearly produce images like this lens can (well basically any 2.8 or faster lens).
You mean because of the difference in aperture? Because if this is the lens you guys are talking about, it's basically the same I have but 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens as opposed to 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6. That would give me such a drastic difference in image quality? I mean, this lens seems to be from the same product line, it looks identical to mine.
Plus keep in mind the BMPCC 6K G2 doesn't have internal ND filters, so depending on the shooting situation, you can't even use the extra aperture. The other day I was shooting in the daytime with the sun up, and I had my 50mm f/1.4 Canon lens. With the ISO at 100, and the iris all the way down to f/22, I was still getting too much light and overblowing the highlights. Meaning, I don't think I had any way to stop the light coming in unless I had an external ND filter, which I don't have but I need to buy.
Michel Rabe wrote:Also it has the best IS for video I've ever used in a lens.
If it's like I think, the same product line as mine, and therefore the IS is the same, it's not bad, but I would prefer something better. I bought a nice cage for the camera with a handle that has a rubber grip, and I practiced walking slowly trying to keep the camera straight and trying to not transfer my body motion to it, but when I saw the footage on my TV set I was really surprised at how shaky it is. With the 18-200mm lens that is, with the other two, a 50mm and a 28mm, it was so shaky it looked like I had moved the camera like a paint shaker.
How about this one? Anyone has any experience with it?
https://www.amazon.com/Sigma-17-50mm-Aperture-Standard-Digital/dp/B003A6H27K/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_1?pd_rd_w=MKfWC&content-id=amzn1.sym.225b4624-972d-4629-9040-f1bf9923dd95%3Aamzn1.symc.40e6a10e-cbc4-4fa5-81e3-4435ff64d03b&pf_rd_p=225b4624-972d-4629-9040-f1bf9923dd95&pf_rd_r=QMC18J2FCB1191MTE71Y&pd_rd_wg=OS5nk&pd_rd_r=eadaa752-9a59-44e9-b698-18089b95609e&pd_rd_i=B003A6H27K&th=1(Sorry for the ridiculously long link, I tried to make it shorter but Bitly forces you to create an account now
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