I am thinking about getting this lens to use in place of my Canon 18-55mm and my Quantray 70-200mm lenses. I shoot Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) eventsboth the Action or ground matches and the Mounted matches for both SASS and CMSA events. I find that at times my idea picture range is the 40 and 120 mm and at first I figure grab a new camera body and put one lens on each but I still might miss a shot because I am swiitching cameras so I figured the best thing would to buy a lens that work the range I needed.
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One more thing: If these events are indoors, you should consider an f/2.8 lens. And if there's any kind of fast/sudden action going on, you want to pay close attention to how fast and how well the AF works -- and having f/2.8 certainly helps for that. Unfortunately, that range doesn't come with a lot of f/2.8 lenses, and the few there are all in the $700 range, like the Sigma 50-150 or the Tokina 50-135.
Consider your targets, then choose the lens.