10-12-2015, 04:29 PM
Hi Rob,
like to help you a bit in your choice. Beginners always think they've to cover every mm of focus range, so your choice 17-250 seems to figure that out. Sticking with 2 zooms, the first quite heavy, not very "wide" and quite expensive. With your camera 50d (830g body and battery) + the 17/... (650 g) you've to carry 1480g all the day around. Now you pick up the 55/250 too (we add 375g), means 1855g. But we did not cover lowlight problems - so we add an 1.4, 1.8 or an 2.0 lens. So easily we jump over the 2kg. Hooray! Even in aps-c it's possible to step over the 2kg bareer...
My own canon equipment don't exceed 1370g (420g body and battery, 240g 10-18, 335g 35f2 and 375g 55-250). I abandoned the idea of a midrange zoom - with my fixed focal 35mm f2 (full format lens) I'm fine for my day - I can "zoom with my feet" and while I'm not spending time on thinking which lens to use now I don't miss any shot. Usually I 've the wide or the telezoom in a pocket of my cloths - never all the three at the same time.
And of course I stick to lenses of the camera brand... this is the only guarantee that your lens will work with the body you'll buy in the future. Sure, I can buy a sigma dock to update these lenses, but what else.. do I really have to do their job and pay for this on prime?? No way.
like to help you a bit in your choice. Beginners always think they've to cover every mm of focus range, so your choice 17-250 seems to figure that out. Sticking with 2 zooms, the first quite heavy, not very "wide" and quite expensive. With your camera 50d (830g body and battery) + the 17/... (650 g) you've to carry 1480g all the day around. Now you pick up the 55/250 too (we add 375g), means 1855g. But we did not cover lowlight problems - so we add an 1.4, 1.8 or an 2.0 lens. So easily we jump over the 2kg. Hooray! Even in aps-c it's possible to step over the 2kg bareer...
My own canon equipment don't exceed 1370g (420g body and battery, 240g 10-18, 335g 35f2 and 375g 55-250). I abandoned the idea of a midrange zoom - with my fixed focal 35mm f2 (full format lens) I'm fine for my day - I can "zoom with my feet" and while I'm not spending time on thinking which lens to use now I don't miss any shot. Usually I 've the wide or the telezoom in a pocket of my cloths - never all the three at the same time.
And of course I stick to lenses of the camera brand... this is the only guarantee that your lens will work with the body you'll buy in the future. Sure, I can buy a sigma dock to update these lenses, but what else.. do I really have to do their job and pay for this on prime?? No way.