Lenses, Lenses, Lenses!!!

Anyone know a good place to get some lenses to fit a Canon EOS 300v?

+ Why are lenses soooo dear?! Its crazy!? Theyre some going on ebay for over a grand (£1000 for those of you who live outside the UK!!)

[Joe]

Originally Posted by ahmedtheking

Anyone know a good place to get some lenses to fit a Canon EOS 300v?

Canon 75-300MM USM F4-5.6 III

Great starter lens, good focal length, cheap.

Originally Posted by ahmedtheking

+ Why are lenses soooo dear?! Its crazy!? Theyre some going on ebay for over a grand (£1000 for those of you who live outside the UK!!)

Your probibly looking at Canon's L glass lenes which are IMO the best optics out there, they produce, crisp, sharp, amazingly clear shotsl, well worth the money.

Joe.

[Cindy Bensaid]

I have a pretty extensive list of lenses.. one is an L that I love, but quite heavy, and needs a tripod. My 2 favs are my 28-135 lens.. around a 400.00 us price. but well worth it. a good starter lens, and good for portraits, and landscapes. Get a varied zoom.. like as short and as long reach as you can afford. to cover the gamit for your first lens. I also have a sigma lens that is real nice too.. not as nice a canon, but they are making good lenses now.. and for a more reasonble price for starter lenses. Good luck!

[TVPR]

I currently use only two Canon lenses for my 20D; one is a 50mm f1.8, the other is 28mm f2.8 - both produce very nice pictures, and together cover an impressively wide range of areas to shoot in. The only thing I'm lacking is a proper telephoto objective, which I'm currently thinking of filling with a 75-300mm zoom lens.

You just have to keep in mind, you must multiply the focal length with about 1.6 or so, since your sensor is smaller than a 35mm film. Thus, a 28mm covers all kinds of landscape pretty okay, and the 50mm is fair enough for nature photography, and spot-on for portraits. For shooting birds, animals or other things you can't get close to, though; you'll need a bigger one than 50mm anyway. But the beauty is that both these objectives are physically tiny, really light, and got a really nice aperture since they're not zoom-lenses. Plus they're really cheap.

(If anyone wonders what happened to the zoom-lenses I used before, which I miss a lot even if I have these two allrounders, I had to turn them in with the D60 )