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Old 15-11-2005, 01:55 PM
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Mike,

Welcome to the Canon DSLR club, incredible cameras for the money. 58mm is standard for the Canon consumer lenses, the specialist lenses are generally bigger (= faster). It seems the 50mm f1.8 is pretty much mandatory as it is cheap ($140 plus p&p approx on ebay) fast (f1.8) and sharp. Normally this means $$$$. The other Canon lens I have had my eye on is the 100mm f2.8 macro again not to expensive and very sharp. After that you are into the L series lenses which are all $$$$. General advice is steer clear of zooms, even the Canon L zooms cannot match a prime for sharpness, having said that I use a 18-55 and 75-300 and get ok results piggyback if you stop down (at least two stops).

Have a look here:

http://www.photodo.com/prod/lens/35l...tf.shtml#Canon

For Tech specs on lens perfomance. I thought long and hard about getting a lesser scope and a good camera lens or two but as you might have seen elsewhere I just blew if all on the Vixen kit. I might be able to get a f1.8 50mm prime if I'm good until Christmas...

BTW My comments re zooms are for astrophotography purposes, for "normal" use they can give good results.
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