A 17mm vs 28mm comparison experiment.

[Paul]

I have seen the question come up by quite a few people looking to buy lenses and one question I see is people asking about the 28mm-xxmm Canon lense. I have one of those. I did not like the fact that I had no wide to work with so I bought a efs 17-85. Last Friday after I got done setting up a mid winter formal High School dance I thought I would take a pic with each lense from a fixed location. As you can see from the photo I was on HS gym floor. Each end was just past the 3 point line to give an idea of how many feet it was across. Now Mounted camera to Tripod and set lens at 17mm, from here I walked backwards till I had the entire system in the viewfinder. I took the first shot. I then changed lenses to the 28-80 and took another shot at 28mm. You can clearly see how much is lost. I did not move the tripod at all. I tired to back up and get the whole system inside the 28mm but I ran into the wall on the other end so I could not get a comparison that way. Anyway here are my results. Oh ya I was set up just past mid court inbetween half court and 3 point line. Gear on other end was set up on out of bounds line.

17mm

Same shot with 28mm Focal lenth lense.

[Steve Foss]

Thanks for the comparison, Paul. Nothing like an actual look at side-by-sides to help folks get a feel for the differences.

[mmeyer]

Dude Walker,

That is a good comparison. I've wondered how much difference there could be but I can see there is quite a bit.

Thanks and your work is Always Hot and Real Cool!

[Paul]

Ouch, thems almost fighting words.... LOL...I only work there. so I am not quite the illustrious "Dude", though one might say having over 11 years in with the company does pose some sort of ownership in a sense. Guess I could have PS the banner out but then it would have looked pretty dumb.

[mmeyer]

I'm glad you can take a little joke. I forgot we'll be meeting in a couple weeks. That could have been ugly.

Mike

[Paul]

Ya well If I can make it a couple of weeks. Something has happenend to my Dog Kennel and I can't find a place for my pootches. If I can drag them along to my brothers for the weekend then life is good, if not I will miss out and end up shooting turkeys in the sandhills I guess. Wouldn't be so bad if I hadn;t allready rented glass, though I suppose I could post pone it till the next time. It just sucks that his had to happen at the last minute for me. ONe way or another I will make it I hope.

[311Hemi]

Thanks for that comparison. Just purchased an Xti and still deciding on a lens to go with...other than the kti lens. I am thinking the 17-85 is what I really want!!

[Paul]

Hemi,

No problem, I was having the same argument in my head, which one to go with. I have been really happy with the 17-xxmm. For a couple of hundred more you could get the 17-40L which is popular with some posters here. I looked at that several times before decided to save a little change and get the larger zoom option.