Lens Kit For Canon XTi SLR Camera

[Apoptosis]

Anyone in here have an SLR camera? Looking for a good all around lens kit for a Canon XTi and am looking for advice.

[bubba]

I'll get with the camera nut here at work, he has the same camera I think.

[vbironchef]

I have the canon 30D. We talked a little about what you were going to use it for before you bought your camera. I think you said you needed it for trade shows and a lot of indoor shooting. I would get a 2.8f stop lens, something like a Canon EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 IS USM. Please remember the lens is what costs so much, and yes, you get what you pay for. This lens costs about 1200.00.

please look at this site http://photo.net/equipment/canon/

[Apoptosis]

I was looking into this one: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM for a general all purpose lens.

[vbironchef]

I think you will be happy with that lens when you shoot outdoors. Indoors will only be ok. The best pictures are without a flash. With that lens you will be using your flash alot indoors. For the price, I think the lens you have in mind is pretty good all around lens. It would be a very good first lens to own. It's hard to stop at just one lens. Pretty soon you'll have two or three.

[hercules71185]

I went with getting the panasonic dmc-fz18 JUST because of lenses. I'm not in anyway unsatisfied.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hercules71185
But, if I could AFFORD dslr I would have got that camera.
The lens you are speaking of I actually seen used in person with the same camera.
I don't know why the indoor thing is rated badly.. He just cranked up his iso for indoor pics and it was fine.
my camera iso 800 sucks lol. but, I don't use high iso

so as long as you are using a dslr as you stated. then its a great all around lens. For day and night.

[DMB2000uk]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hercules71 ... otostream/

Oh aye?

Dan

[hercules71185]

haha thats my gf :-D

[Alathald]

haha thats my gf :-D

You, my friend, are a lucky nerd...j/k, you're a lucky man in general (now you just gotta get her into computers and you're living a dream )

Oh, forgot to mention, the camera DOES take nice pictures...and thanks for putting a stocking up for me (name's Kyle ) you really didn't have too...

[FZ1]

I just ordered one of the Rebel cameras as well

[hercules71185]

haha thats my gf :-D

You, my friend, are a lucky nerd...j/k, you're a lucky man in general (now you just gotta get her into computers and you're living a dream )

Oh, forgot to mention, the camera DOES take nice pictures...and thanks for putting a stocking up for me (name's Kyle ) you really didn't have too...

Haha exactly. I knew you'd see the pic so I had to add a stocking up for you. The hard part was finding the glitter to put the name on it. Sorry for the quick job but, came out alright.
Shes not into computers but, she does like retro games like mario 1 2 and 3.
Altho not into computers she is into my other hobbies :-D personal training MMA and hiking to random places.

But, man it would be nice if she did like computers because she doesn't even like me on them or working on friends computers if she is with me.

[DMB2000uk]

Its the curse of the nerd , find a girl and its 90% likely that she hates computers

Dan

[FZ1]

Nate, here is a pretty good site for learning how to use your camera:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/digital ... rials.html

[DMB2000uk]

All the links on that page point to the japanese canon site, and they are all now 404's so I'm guessing Canon either restructured their site, or took the content down altogether.
Its a shame as there were some things that looked interesting on there.

I think they restructured as they all seem to be here:
http://web.canon.jp/imaging/enjoydslr/

Dan

[FZ1]

It linked me here which has some useful info...
http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/settings/

[DMB2000uk]

How'd you get from your first link to that page?

Sure you posted the right page first time round?

Dan

[FZ1]

Errrr...uhhhmmmm...I dunno dude. I have been looking at a bunch of sites so I'm prolly confused! My camera body came today but the lens won't be here until Monday.