Lens for Canon 400D

I am planning to purchase a Canon 4OOD SLR. I have two old but in good
condition Canon lenses that I used with a Canon 35 mm SLR. They are 50
mm 1:1.8 and 100 x 300 1:4.5-5.6. Please recommend what other lens I
need to cover the basic range for people and landscape photography. I
am trying to keep expenses under control...Thanks in advance

I am planning to purchase a Canon 4OOD SLR. I have two old but in good
condition Canon lenses that I used with a Canon 35 mm SLR. They are 50
mm 1:1.8 and 100 x 300 1:4.5-5.6. Please recommend what other lens I
need to cover the basic range for people and landscape photography. I
am trying to keep expenses under control...Thanks in advance


Keep in mind that your 50 becomes an 85 and your 100/300 goes to 166/500 on
the Rebel series. So you've got the portraing & long end covered, but have
nothing remotely wide. I've got the 17-85IS which has worked very well for
me, but you'll get opinions all over the map on it, mostly dealing with it
being relatively expensive and whether the IS is really worth it (for me, it
is). But if money is a big issue, you might just try out the kit lens that
comes with the camera. For $100 it's not much of a gamble.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA


"christopher" wrote in message
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I am planning to purchase a Canon 4OOD SLR. I have two old but in good
condition Canon lenses that I used with a Canon 35 mm SLR. They are 50
mm 1:1.8 and 100 x 300 1:4.5-5.6. Please recommend what other lens I
need to cover the basic range for people and landscape photography. I
am trying to keep expenses under control...Thanks in advance

Thanks for the advice. I'll probably go with the kit lens like you
suggest and then see.
Mike Jacoubowsky a écrit :

I am planning to purchase a Canon 4OOD SLR. I have two old but in good
condition Canon lenses that I used with a Canon 35 mm SLR. They are 50
mm 1:1.8 and 100 x 300 1:4.5-5.6. Please recommend what other lens I
need to cover the basic range for people and landscape photography. I
am trying to keep expenses under control...Thanks in advance


Keep in mind that your 50 becomes an 85 and your 100/300 goes to 166/500 on
the Rebel series. So you've got the portraing & long end covered, but have
nothing remotely wide. I've got the 17-85IS which has worked very well for
me, but you'll get opinions all over the map on it, mostly dealing with it
being relatively expensive and whether the IS is really worth it (for me, it
is). But if money is a big issue, you might just try out the kit lens that
comes with the camera. For $100 it's not much of a gamble.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA


"christopher" wrote in message
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I am planning to purchase a Canon 4OOD SLR. I have two old but in good
condition Canon lenses that I used with a Canon 35 mm SLR. They are 50
mm 1:1.8 and 100 x 300 1:4.5-5.6. Please recommend what other lens I
need to cover the basic range for people and landscape photography. I
am trying to keep expenses under control...Thanks in advance

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
I am planning to purchase a Canon 4OOD SLR. I have two old but in good
condition Canon lenses that I used with a Canon 35 mm SLR. They are 50
mm 1:1.8 and 100 x 300 1:4.5-5.6. Please recommend what other lens I
need to cover the basic range for people and landscape photography. I
am trying to keep expenses under control...Thanks in advance


Keep in mind that your 50 becomes an 85 and your 100/300 goes to 166/500 on
the Rebel series. So you've got the portraing & long end covered, but have
nothing remotely wide. I've got the 17-85IS which has worked very well for
me, but you'll get opinions all over the map on it, mostly dealing with it
being relatively expensive and whether the IS is really worth it (for me, it
is). But if money is a big issue, you might just try out the kit lens that
comes with the camera. For $100 it's not much of a gamble.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA


"christopher" wrote in message
oups.com...
I am planning to purchase a Canon 4OOD SLR. I have two old but in good
condition Canon lenses that I used with a Canon 35 mm SLR. They are 50
mm 1:1.8 and 100 x 300 1:4.5-5.6. Please recommend what other lens I
need to cover the basic range for people and landscape photography. I
am trying to keep expenses under control...Thanks in advance




I tried the $69 Canon 50mm f1.8 lens for my 400D. I couldn't get it to
properly auto-focus. If I was careful I could manually focus and obtain
a good photograph. That led me to the conclusion that the glass was
good, but the auto-focus was off. The problem is that the manual focus
ring is extremely thin and adjustments are coarse. I returned it.

Based upon all the great reviews, I then bought the Canon 50mm f1.4 lens
($300+/-). The results were less than great.

I put the camera on a tripod. Delayed shutter release and locked up the
mirror. Shot in raw mode. Photographed a static object at a variety of
apertures since I read that f1.4 isn't too sharp.

I removed the lens and put on my 24-105 Canon lens and shot a number of
pictures of the same static object at various apertures.

I viewed the results in Photoshop's Camera Raw with sharpness turned
off. In every case, the results from the zoom lens were significantly
better. f1.4 produced fairly fuzzy results but the photographs improved
as I stopped down the aperture.

I would have thought a prime lens would have produced photographs as
good if not better than a zoom lens. I wasn't in the mood for sending
the lens to Canon for a warranty adjustment so I simply returned it
(free return shipping).