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What is a 17-40mm lens good for?

What is a 17-40mm lens good for?

The 17-40mm focal length range is great for group pictures, environmental portraits and full body pictures. Stand back and make a person part of a wide landscape shot. If tighter portraits are your interest, look for a lens that gives you at least an 85mm – 135mm equivalent focal length.

Do Canon lens hoods fit all lenses?

6 Answers. Some lens hoods are an equal size, all the way round (such as for telephoto lenses) whereas others (for medium to wide lenses) protrude more at the top and bottom than they are wide, so I think the answer to your question is NO. There is no single lens hood that will fit all your lenses.

What size lens hood do I need?

The hood thread size is the same as the filter thread size, which is usually found on the inside of the lens cap: 52mm, 58mm, etc. Sometimes, you can find it on the lens itself, depending on the make. If the have the manuals for the lenses, you can also find it there.

Does Canon 17-40mm have image stabilization?

The 17-40mm f/4 L has NO image stabilization. It’s so wide that this isn’t a problem. You can hand-hold it much slower than a normal lens.

Can I use any lens hood?

There are hoods for particular lenses, and models that will fit a selection of lenses. Some are based on filter thread size. They can be used with any lens that has a matching thread size (e.g. 52mm) with internal focus. Many hoods are designed to be reversed and stored with the lens when not in use.

What is a hood used for on a camera lens?

The main reason you use a lens hood is to stop stray light coming onto your lens which can create lens flare and give your images less contrast. This normally happens when shooting into the sun or when you have a strong light source in front of the lens. Let’s look at a couple of examples. Taken without a lens hood.

Should I use lens hood at night?

The fact is that a lens hood should live on your lens. The purpose of a lens hood is to create a shadow on the lens to prevent lens flare from stray light, mostly caused by the sun. However, the hood should also be used at night due to street lights or other point source lights.

Is a lens hood worth it?

You should have a lens hood on all the time. Even when you’re inside or at night you could get stray light going over the front of your lens which will reduce the contrast of your image. Another bonus in using a lens hood is that it will protect the front of your lens.

Do you really need lens hood?

What kind of lens is the Canon EF 17-40mm?

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Lens. Spanning a versatile wide-angle range, the EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Lens is a Canon L-series zoom featuring a constant f/4 maximum aperture along with a sophisticated optical design and durable construction.

Can you take the hood off a canon 17-40?

The construction of the 17-40 won’t let you slide the hood on/off from the camera mount side so once the adapter is in place your hood will either be on or off unless you remove the adapter.

Is the canon 17-40 L lens UV sealed?

The common 77mm filter threads make sharing filters with many of Canon’s complementing lenses easy. The 17-40 L is weather-sealed but requires a UV Filter to complete the sealing. Wide open center of the frame sharpness ranges from great on the wide end to good on the long end.

Which is better a 17mm or a 40mm?

Obviously, 17mm is vastly wider than 40mm. Utilizing Ring USM, the Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Lens focuses very fast, quietly and accurately . The focus and zoom rings are nicely sized, turn smoothly and are nicely damped.

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What is a 17 40mm lens good for?

What is a 17 40mm lens good for?

The 17-40mm focal length range is great for group pictures, environmental portraits and full body pictures. Stand back and make a person part of a wide landscape shot. If tighter portraits are your interest, look for a lens that gives you at least an 85mm – 135mm equivalent focal length.

What is a 24 105mm lens good for?

The 24-105mm is great for urban shots where you want to zoom out to get the whole scene. It is also nice to walk around with one lens when you have to climb a bunch of stairs, like at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Zoomed all the way out at 24mm (1/80 sec., f/5.6, ISO 200).

What does 24 105mm lens mean?

The EF 24–105mm f/4L IS USM is an EF mount wide-to-telephoto zoom lens. It was introduced by Canon in 2005 to complement the well-regarded 17–40mm f/4L USM and 70–200mm f/4L USM. It has the same zoom range, but a non-constant aperture range which is typical of many non-professional lenses.

Is the Canon 17 40 lens full frame?

This 17-40mm L lens is for full-frame, film and 1.3x cameras like the 1D series. The17-40mm f/4 and 16-35mm f/2.8 work great on the 1.6x sensor cameras (Rebel, 30D, 20D), but for those cameras the 18-55mm EF-S lens, for one sixth the price, is lighter and more agile.

Does the Canon 17-40mm lens have image stabilization?

The 17-40mm f/4 L has NO image stabilization. It’s so wide that this isn’t a problem. You can hand-hold it much slower than a normal lens.

Does Canon 16 35 have image stabilization?

The EF 16–35 mm lens is a family of professional wide-angle lenses made by Canon Inc. While it is one stop slower than the other 16–35 mm versions, it is the first L-series wide-angle zoom to offer image stabilization.

Is 105mm good for portraits?

Minimum focusing distance: Portrait photography is all about getting close without really having to get too close. While the 85mm lens is promising in its zoom, the 105mm lens will get you even closer. A 105mm lens will get rid of any perspective distortion due to its limited focal length.

Which is better the 17-40 or the 24-105?

The 24-105 is a wide (bordering on ultra wide, just barely) to short telephoto lens that covers a range about equally past normal in both the wide and telephoto directions. It also adds image stabilization. Functionally, it is a /very different lens/ than the 17-40.

Which is sharper : EF 17-40 or 24-105 F4?

An additional consideration is that the 17-40 has much less distortion in the 24-30 range. Re: Which is sharper : EF 17-40 or 24-105 f4? I used 17-40 with 5DII before, it was great and sharp lens, except some soft at 17mm at side edges. Now I’m planning back to full frame maybe next month or so, I start thinking of 24-105 instead of 17-40.

Which is sharper the canon 24-105 or the Canon 70?

The 24-105 is sharper, in fact its even sharper then my 24-70. At 105 you might experience a slight softness at the edges but thats all. Its a real Canon workhorse.

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