Happy Day! New Lens Day! (Canon 17-55)

[Blurmore]

I got on the waiting list 2 weeks ago. Someone posted on dpreview the day after the release that Service Photo in Baltimore had 17-55s. I called, they got one, and apparently no one ACTUALLY saw it in the showroom??? So I asked if there was a waiting list. There was after I asked, I was first. So the sale of my 17-85 for 350 and 750 bucks later I purchased the beast. So in honor lets play a game.

What is it?


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stumped? a 200% crop of the cluster of my 05 Malibu Maxx at f2.8.

http://JKnauer.smugmug.com/photos/71690072-L.jpg


this lens is sharp.

http://JKnauer.smugmug.com/photos/71694989-L.jpg


300% crop from this pic @f2.8

http://JKnauer.smugmug.com/photos/71690866-L.jpg


After enduring through a year with the 17-85....I'm in lust.

[ziggy53]

I am so envious. Can I borrow it on the weekends?:wink

Good stuff, let's see more.

BTW, what was going on that people were looking at?

ziggy53

[kdog]

Wow, wow, wow! Lucky you.

Post some more! :thumb

Regards,
-joel

[Blurmore]

It was a police funeral procession up Interstate 83.

http://JKnauer.smugmug.com/photos/71691005-L.jpg

Aperture: f/2.8 ISO: 100 Focal Length: 55mm (guess: 59mm in 35mm) Exposure Time: 0.0002s (1/4000)

http://JKnauer.smugmug.com/photos/71691626-L-1.jpg

I'm not going to post the crop....but I can read the plate number on the lead car at 200%.

f/8.0 ISO: 100 Focal Length: 55mm (guess: 59mm in 35mm) Exposure Time: 0.004s (1/250)
http://JKnauer.smugmug.com/photos/71691470-L-1.jpg

here you see the big fault.... vignetting wide open. heh...big whoop! so frickin sharp I don't care.

Aperture: f/2.8 ISO: 100 Focal Length: 17mm (guess: 19mm in 35mm) Exposure Time: 0.0004s (1/2500)

[DanielB]

sweet! how does the build feel? solid? or not so much...

wish they'd get rid of the EF-S element and slap an L on that thing....

[Bob Bell]

Thats an interesting focal length for some of the stuff I do. Can you put together a review, some details about it. How it handles shooting into the sun, low light, how bad the wide angle distortions are?

Congrats on your new toy.

[Blurmore]

Thats an interesting focal length for some of the stuff I do. Can you put together a review, some details about it. How it handles shooting into the sun, low light, how bad the wide angle distortions are?

Congrats on your new toy.

I shoot weddings, and putzing around the house and neighborhood is nothing to base a review on...But I'm shooting 2 weddings this weekend 1 at ST. Matthews Cathedral where I plan on replicating this which I shot with my 17-85 @ f11.

http://JKnauer.smugmug.com/photos/71654547-L.jpg


According to the photozone.de review it is 2% barrel at 17mm and less that .5 pin everyhwere else. It exhibits almost exactly the same barrel as the 1300 dollar Nikon DX 17-55. Build? It feels alot like the 17-85. heavier, less sloppy, more positive on the stabilizer and af switches, non-dampend but smooth zoom ring. Too me it seems to have taken all Canon learned from the 17-85 about build and UD elements from the 24-70 and threw them together and charged 700 bucks more.