Well my lovely caring thoughtful wife, got me an early x-mas gift, the canon xti w/ the 18-55 lens.

Now it has been years since I owned a SLR and never owned a D-SLR. I had a Minolta 5 something or other back in the early 90's (that I gave to my mother), and that was after the tried and true canon AE-1 that died from a dry shutter box. I had a 70-200mm lens for the Minolta. But as I started looking into lenses for the XTi I notice they have 18-200's which to the best of my recollection wasn't even possible in the 90's. So I'm looking at Sigma or the Canon brand the sigma 18-200 or 18-125 (being it is internally focused as is the canon USM's) has my eye, but the more I play with the camera I like how it saves all the settings into the picture file (Aperture, iso, shutter speed, zoom) will the Sigma's feed the camera the settings as a canon brand lens does?

But then the IS lenses are kind of a nice thought as well, though it's not quite the range or the sigma, the 28-135 IS USM lens is the one I have an eye on. Or ditching the wide angle portion of the zoom and going for the 70-300 IS USM.


Thoughts Ideas Recommendations?

Thanks - Paul

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Hello,

Hopefully someone understands everything you wrote and responds. lmao You lost me on the first sentence when you named the camera and lens!

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Yea what Rich said ....I know nothing about cameras other than to aim, focus and shoot. Lacey is the exper, she'll be along soon

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:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

That's a hot camera your lucky!

Congrats on the XTi, I shoot with the XT (I like the XT better, but i'm biased because I haven't played much with the XTi)

Go with the IS lens. It costs more but is worth every penny.

Right now I have the kit lens (18-55mm) and a Canon non-IS 70-300mm telephoto. The tele is really big and hard to work with unless you are shooting in VERY bright light and even then it has a shortest focusing distance of over a meter.

In the next couple of weeks I will probably be upgrading my glass collection to include a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens (about $80 and worth every penny) and a Canon 100mm macro IS with a USM. *Drools*

I could go on for hours...if you decide to go with non-IS lenses then look into buying a speedlight and maybe an RC-1 cordless remote to reduce camera shake.

Here's my photostream: http://flickr.com/photos/moshpitrockchick/ most of these were taken with the kit lens unless otherwise noted.

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You lucky dog. A really want a descent D-SLR but they are kind of pricey. My suggestion is hold on to that wife--she's a keeper.

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Oh yes I'm quite aware of that

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One thing you will have to get used to if this is your first DSLR is the way the sensor works....on the old SLR cameras when the lenses says 70-200mm that is what you got on a Canon DSLR that equates to 100-300mm.....so you can get away with shorter lenses and still get good distance on them.

If you do go for a long telephoto then def. get a lense with IS, worth its weight in gold, this will allow longer exposures, normally upto two stops....

Canon 100mm macro IS with a USM, will be the next lense I get lol Heard nothing but good things about this lens

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I'll think of something to put here soon.......

I like this site, http://photozone.de/8Reviews/index.html , but I just needed som real world opinions, lab work is great but . . .

As macro goes I had my eye on the MP-e 65mm but 900 dollars for a lens that so specalized I dont think I'd get the use out of it, to make it worth while.

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Congrats on the camera, though it's all greek to me.

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