28-80mm
70-300mm
+ the crop
how many mm do you use?
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It's difficoult to say which is main used. For this hobby you need all the focal lenghts you can. Infact when you enter bases/airshows you need a wide zoom and medio tele zoom for static and taxyshots.
Here you are covered with the 17-85 but you need some more reach like a 70-xxx zoom.
For display / landing and take off shots youu'd better buy a fast prime.
Like many here I have covered quite all from 20 mm up to >400mm.
My most used lens is 300+1,4x as where I live here in Italy you can't stay so close to bases fences and I am obliged to do landing shots from far spots.
As many suggest a nice lens could be the 100-400/L and if you can't afford it you could go to 70-300 IS or 70-200/4L.
Another very good option is the sigma 100-300/4 EX. It seems to be a very good performer, on pair with canon L lenses.
ciao Giampaolo
Here you are covered with the 17-85 but you need some more reach like a 70-xxx zoom.
For display / landing and take off shots youu'd better buy a fast prime.
Like many here I have covered quite all from 20 mm up to >400mm.
My most used lens is 300+1,4x as where I live here in Italy you can't stay so close to bases fences and I am obliged to do landing shots from far spots.
As many suggest a nice lens could be the 100-400/L and if you can't afford it you could go to 70-300 IS or 70-200/4L.
Another very good option is the sigma 100-300/4 EX. It seems to be a very good performer, on pair with canon L lenses.
ciao Giampaolo
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