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Lens Help: 16-35mm or 17-40mm for video?

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Axilrod:
16-35mm for sure, especially if you do a lot of low-light shooting.  It's sharp, versatile, and as fast as zooms get.  Someone else mentioned the 14LII, which is a stellar lens but way more expensive and not near as versatile (and can be too wide in some situations).  I have both and love them both in different ways, but honestly if I had to get rid of one of my lenses the 14mm would probably be the first to go. 

DArora:
If you need to use the new lens for videos, I would pick the faster one, i.e. 16-35 f/2.8L II in this case. My understanding is that generally 20-35 mm is a good focal length for most videos and this focal length will be covered by 16-35L.
14L is definitely a great lens but it might be too wide for videos.

Vitruvius:
If you want wide and you are going to use it on the 600D which has a 1.6 crop factor then why not go with the Canon EF-S 10-22? It has very high image quality for the price and then you would actually have a 24-105 on the 5Dmk3 and a true 'wide' 16-35mm lens on the 600D.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/1022.htm

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