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As far as I know any EF glass will work including L lenses,Ive been
lookin at this one for mine
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...2578A002_70_20
0mm_f_4_0L_USM_Autofocus.html .
Ive had my xsi about a month and am happy with it, taking some
getting used to as my last slr was a minolta x370, that ive used
since 1985.
The flash should be ok also as the 430 was what the Canon Dealer has
been pushing at me.

Great, thanks! You'll be quite happy with it, I think. It is, IMO, a
very good compromise of size/weight, power, and price.

My understanding is that any of the accessories from their newer
cameras will work from the rebels to the d models (30d+).

I would expect that and will find out for sure when I go looking. I
intend to take my Rebel XT with my most commonly used L-glass zoom and
the 430EX and test drive them in the store.

I do know that it used a different battery grip and a different
battery, the sd cards seem fine , but get higher speed ones I was
told, I know the high speed ones transfer data to the puter faster
but not sure if the write in the camera faster.
This is the only photo Ive posted with the xsi, and I degrade the
quality and size to make it less desirable for rippers and other
photo I may have online was taken with a sony dsc v1.
http://faw67.deviantart.com/art/Da-Frog-85827142

It annoys me that I need to buy new SD cards but I guess that's
progress. Also, it is annoying from a $$$ standpoint also, but
expected, that the battery would be different. Seems all the camera
makers have some sort of compulsion to change this stuff each time they
release a new model.Maybe that's an easy way to more revenue when
people upgrade.

Thanks for the link. As I said earlier this morning, I hope I can find
a store that will allow a full Visa refund if I don't like it, but
since I feel so strongly that my current XT was and still is a great
camera, it seems pretty far fetched that I wouldn't like the Xsi with
what I believe are so many improvements.

The main issues I've had with the XT taking my main subject, cars at
outdoor shows and museums are these:

1) AF failures about 2% of the time even though I always use AF lock
and only use one sampling point in the center
2) Flash AE failures even though I also always use AE lock on the back
of the camera (once I found it). It is tedious and never quite right to
keep moving the AE sampling point to different parts of the car until
it looks OK in the LCD. And, the much larger LCD will give me a better
chance at success here
3) Problems with dynamic range both outdoors and with flash. Outdoors,
it is usually when shooting an engine or car interior and everything
else is blown out from being way over-exposed. And, with flash, I have
similar dynamic range problems.

Dang! Forgot to ask people how the noise is on the Xsi!

Since you own one, you're a very good source for an opine. On my XT, I
find that it is pretty much useless above ISO 400 but I would love to
shoot at 1600 (or higher if the Xsi can) because I could get away many
times with the flash which causes it's own kind of problems.

Thanks for the comments and if you have more based on my reply now,
please let me know, I'd appreciated it.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck"