John, if you check ebay there's a guy that sells from Melbourne and has the 50mm f1.8 canon lens for around $134 + postage (shipped from Melbourne) As Paul said the 18-55's not bad, especially for the price bundled with a kit. Did you layby the 300D or 350D; depending on cost, it would be worth the extra dollars to get the 350D. I don't think the 300D has mirror lockup without a firmware hack, but I believe the 350D does and the extra resolution is handy if only for cropping. The 350D also has the ability to write a seperate raw file in addition to JPG at the time of capture
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos350d/ and
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...anon_350d.html reviews the 350D and gives a summary of the differences between it and the 300D.
http://www.bobatkins.com/photography...00dlenses.html has good info on the various lenses for the EOS/D range. If your'e getting an adapter for your LX90 you may be interested in the shorty adapter from scopestuff
www.scopestuff.com in the US; it will allow the EOS to clear the forks (at least without a focal reducer). (Thanks to Trufflehunter) Here's the part numbers just in case.
#TASS - SCT T-adapter for Direct Photography, Short (collar ring type)
#TTCE - Camera to T-thread Ring for Canon EOS
Post from the US cost $15 (I also got a dew strap and some shorty collimation knobs)
Baader also make an adapter which I think is even shorter than the Scopestuff one at a bit more cost.
