Help me choose a body and lens', plz.

[Shay]

legend!

[PaulyJ]

Shay, get the twin lens kit, and LEARN the camera.
As Poit said, not much diff between 500D and 550D. Both great to learn on.
Lenses, the kit ones will do for now. As I said, use them to learn and build your skills. You will be suprised at what you can take with these.

My opinion, save $$ and get the 500D, and put money towards better glass, extra batteries, flash, camera mounts etc.

[dub_sri]

I got the 550D with the twin lens kit, beautiful camera. I am looking to do more on the video side so that really influenced my choice.
I will be selling the kit lenses early next year in favour of a Tamron or Sigma 18-270 or 18-250mm respectively. I get annoyed at having to change lenses personally.

One lens I can thoroughly recommend is the canon 50mm f1.8 for beautiful shots with great depth of focus effects.

[Shadow110]

I have the older 400d with standard twin lens kit.
I'm looking to get a fish eye lens and a macro lens for now then I'll go for a newer one in about a year or so.
No movies at all on mine!!! Lol.

[PS88]

Bought a Canon 500D Last week and very impressed with the photos.

[Shay]

I got the 550D with the twin lens kit, beautiful camera. I am looking to do more on the video side so that really influenced my choice.
I will be selling the kit lenses early next year in favour of a Tamron or Sigma 18-270 or 18-250mm respectively. I get annoyed at having to change lenses personally.

One lens I can thoroughly recommend is the canon 50mm f1.8 for beautiful shots with great depth of focus effects.

was talking to one of the camera enthusiasts i work with today, said he has a tamron 18-250, and its useful in its range, but seriously lacking quality in the actual picture produced.
think he is using a 5D body.

[dub_sri]

was talking to one of the camera enthusiasts i work with today, said he has a tamron 18-250, and its useful in its range, but seriously lacking quality in the actual picture produced.
think he is using a 5D body.

I have a good mate that does a lot of pro video work with the 7D and 5D. He uses the sigma and says that it's as good as you could expect. It has a few issues with top end sharpness, but is comparable to using the standard canon kit lenses.

[Shay]

thats what i was referring to, the top end sharpness, but if your using it for video its prob not gonna be a huge issue

[dub_sri]

Yeah I am a bit of a sucker for the whole 'Not changing lenses every hour' deal. I suppose if you want the best quality across the zoom range then you pony up for L series glass, but deeper pockets are needed.
You're exactly right, with the video work the top end is not going to be a real issue. I doubt I would be shooting at the 270mm end very often.

[cdti]

i bought a 500D in September, and absolutely love it. I'm up to over 3500 photos already!

I was suggested not to go for the twin lens kit, as the lens qualities aren't that fantastic, and the mounts are actually plastic on them. I went for the Canon 18-200 kit lens, and it wasn't that much more expensive than the twin in the end. To go to the 550D at that stage would have been an extra $450 which I couldn't justify.

The idea of changing lenses regularly just didn't interest me at all, especially if they have plastic mounts. Worst thing I found was I had borrowed a camera from work with a big zoom lens (70-300 I think), then took it to my son's soccer game. Took great shots of the kids on the field, however they all returned after the game and I couldn't take a team photo as I needed to be 30m away. That made up my mind for me.