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

BlurmoreBlurmore Registered Users Posts: 992 Major grins
edited May 26, 2006 in Cameras
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.

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this lens is sharp.

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300% crop from this pic @f2.8

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

  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,068 moderator
    edited May 26, 2006
    I am so envious. Can I borrow it on the weekends?mwink.gif

    Good stuff, let's see more.

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

    ziggy53
    ziggy53
    Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited May 26, 2006
    Wow, wow, wow! Lucky you.

    Post some more! thumb.gif

    Regards,
    -joel
    Moderator of Landscapes forum
    Link to my Smugmug site
  • BlurmoreBlurmore Registered Users Posts: 992 Major grins
    edited May 26, 2006
    Ask and you shall recieve
    It was a police funeral procession up Interstate 83.

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

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    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)
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    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)
    http://blog.jasonknauer.com
  • DanielBDanielB Registered Users Posts: 2,362 Major grins
    edited May 26, 2006
    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....
    Daniel Bauer
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  • Bob BellBob Bell Registered Users Posts: 598 Major grins
    edited May 26, 2006
    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.
    Bob
    Phoenix, AZ
    Canon Bodies
    Canon and Zeiss Lenses
  • BlurmoreBlurmore Registered Users Posts: 992 Major grins
    edited May 26, 2006
    Bob Bell wrote:
    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.

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    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.
    http://blog.jasonknauer.com
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