Help Choosing New Canon Lens.

[Joe Butch]

I'm considering the purchase of one of the following the lenses. They're all very close in price. I'm using a t2i. I currently have a 50mm 1.4, and a 28-135. I would be selling the 28-135mm to help purchase the new lens.

I would appreciate any opinions you have. I wanted a wider lens. I'm under the impression that the 10-22mm will not be distorted being that wide? I also would want to use the lens for shooting indie films.

What lens would best suit me?

• EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Autofocus Lens
• EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens
• EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Lens

Also, I would most likely be purchasing a telephoto lens in the summer most likely something like the 70-200mm f/4L

[dlambert]

If you described your intended usage, I'd be you'd be half-way to your answer. Obviously, the 28-135 isn't floating your boat right now, and all these lenses are wider than that, so I have to assume that's one of the reasons you're shopping, but if you've got other thoughts about why you're not happy with the 28-135, that might help understand what you want to find (or avoid) in a replacement.

Pending any additional info, though, here are a few random thoughts:

* The 10-22 is wide enough to really be considered wide on a crop-sensor body, where the 15-17mm lengths on the other two are sort of wide-standard on that body.

* The 15-85 is a really useful range - I've got the 17-85, and I like the range a lot. The 15-85 is supposed to be an appreciable jump up in quality from the 17-85, though.

* If you've got thoughts of winding up in with a full-frame body at some point, the 17-40 is the only one of these three you'd be able to use with a full-frame body.

[Joe Butch]

Like you said the 28mm is not wide enough. I do a lot of traveling and I find it hard to get the complete building into photos. Want to be able to get nice wide landscape photos as well.

My main hesitance to not just purchasing the 10-22mm is that it will become my "walkaround lens". so my zoom range will be very limited without switching lens but I think this is the zoom range I want to be in most of the time anyways so maybe it's not such a big deal.

I don't see myself upgrading my camera body at all in the next 5 years at least.

[dlambert]

If you want to get a feel for the wide part of that range, maybe you could borrow an 18-55 kit lens from someone - that would be fairly close to the 15-85. I could see either that lens or the 17-40 being a really nice walk-around lens, but the 10-22 seems like it would be wider than I'd want as a general-purpose lens (though it's really highly thought of as a wide lens for crop-bodies).