Walk around lens: Hello,I'm new to the group...I'm looking for a good walk around lens for my canon Eos 60d...I want to use it as I walk around Rockport,and Maine...my choices are...

Ken James Loc: Massachusetts

Hello,I'm new to the group...I'm looking for a good walk around lens for my canon Eos 60d...I want to use it as I walk around Rockport,and Maine...my choices are
Canon 24-205
Canon 18-135
Tamron 16-300
Tamron 28-300
Any advice would be very helpful,thank you,Ken

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Welcome to the forums.
Of the lenses listed I would choose the 18-135 or possibly the Tamron 16-300 (I am not familiar with either lenses). Both will give you a bit of reach as well as being wide.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

Full frame or crop sensor? I recommend the 24-105 or the 18-135 glass, depending upon sensor size and desired image quality.

chaman

I would recommend the 24-105mm. Good for crop and full frame.

Ken James Loc: Massachusetts

I have an old full frame canon mark 5,and a new canon eos 60d...aps

illininitt

No doubt the best one for the $$$ is the Sigma 18-250! It's been on my camera 98% of the time the past 5 years!

chaman

illininitt wrote:

No doubt the best one for the $$$ is the Sigma 18-250! It's been on my camera 98% of the time the past 5 years!

And has can be corroborated its IQ is crap.

illininitt

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chaman

illininitt wrote:

Music is my life....even at 68. Photography maybe 3-4-5 times a year. RMNP 06/15-06/22...but the WORLDS LARGEST MUSIC FESTIVAL at the end of the month. 10 days/10 stages/10 hours per day/Seniors $8 PER DAY! Milwaukee Lakefront. I usually go for 3-4 days....stay in Brookfield and take a shuttlebus to the fest. (if it rains....Milwaukee Brewers baseball game....indoors.)

What this crap has to do with what the OP posted?? The perfect place for you to gather the attention you crave is Facebook. It will be also the perfect photography site for you since you have ZERO intention to learn anything photography related. Just go away.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Ken James wrote:

Hello,I'm new to the group...I'm looking for a good walk around lens for my canon Eos 60d...I want to use it as I walk around Rockport,and Maine...my choices are
Canon 24-205
Canon 18-135
Tamron 16-300
Tamron 28-300
Any advice would be very helpful,thank you,Ken

My "walk-around-lens" is my 70-200/2.8 II,(FF), the 24-105 makes for a nice one too, but in your situation, the 18-135, or 16-300 would probably make for better choices!

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

illininitt wrote:

No doubt the best one for t7e $$$ is the Sigma 18-250! It's been on my camera 98% of the time the past 5 years!

Several years ago, when I was using a Canon Rebel, I purchased an 18-270 thinking it would save my changing lenses. Perhaps the 18-250 is vastly superior to the 18-270 ... but I'm not convinced. Every "super zoom" lens I'm aware of has forced its designers to make too many compromises. In the case of the 18-270, I used it for just a few months before going back to the lenses I'd used before. In addition to IQ issues, I discovered I usually knew in advance which lens I needed before I took the camera out of my bag, so I reaped more of the disadvantages of "super zoom" than of the advantages.

Added: Today I am a Pentax user, and I find the 18-135 makes a good "walk-around" lens for me.

chaman

rehess wrote:

Several years ago I purchased an 18-270 thinking i... (show quote)

I dont think he cares about IQ....at all.

Ken James Loc: Massachusetts

Thank you...

illininitt

My Mom cares....you don't matter!

AntonioReyna Loc: Los Angeles, California

For a Canon crop sensor body, the best "walk around" lens is the EFS 15-85. Better image quality than the 18-135. The 24-105, while a better lens optically, but barely noticeable, is not wide enough on a crop body.