technoholic
Prominent Member
I've been looking at my lens collection today. Trying to work out if I should sell this lens, if its even worth it.
I have a 50mm 1.4, 85mm 1.8 and now the 70-200 2.8 IS II. The 18-135 STM was the kit lens with my 70D. I have read many positive things about this lens, but honestly, I got the 50 and 85 fairly soon after getting the camera, and I didnt really ever use the kit lens, in fact I think ive used it twice in the last couple months.
My main reasons for hanging on to it are that it's obviously good for video with its STM motor, and I would like to get into shooting some video at some point, but then the 70-200 might not have the STM feature, but i've heard it's excellent for video too. The other reason is that it covers the short end of the spectrum, but gives me quite a bit of overlap. It's also the only EF-S lens I have now. That's fine as I obviously have an EF-S camera right now, but I will go FF in the future and would like to keep my lenses to EF where possible.
My thoughts are to sell it, and put the money towards either a 24-105 L F4, which I think are fairly reasonable used, or maybe save up some more and get the 24-70, but realistically I don't think I need f2.8 all the way from 24-70 as I have the 50 1.4 which gives me the fast capabilities at a focal length that I will use.
Any thoughts or alternative ideas?
I have a 50mm 1.4, 85mm 1.8 and now the 70-200 2.8 IS II. The 18-135 STM was the kit lens with my 70D. I have read many positive things about this lens, but honestly, I got the 50 and 85 fairly soon after getting the camera, and I didnt really ever use the kit lens, in fact I think ive used it twice in the last couple months.
My main reasons for hanging on to it are that it's obviously good for video with its STM motor, and I would like to get into shooting some video at some point, but then the 70-200 might not have the STM feature, but i've heard it's excellent for video too. The other reason is that it covers the short end of the spectrum, but gives me quite a bit of overlap. It's also the only EF-S lens I have now. That's fine as I obviously have an EF-S camera right now, but I will go FF in the future and would like to keep my lenses to EF where possible.
My thoughts are to sell it, and put the money towards either a 24-105 L F4, which I think are fairly reasonable used, or maybe save up some more and get the 24-70, but realistically I don't think I need f2.8 all the way from 24-70 as I have the 50 1.4 which gives me the fast capabilities at a focal length that I will use.
Any thoughts or alternative ideas?