Help with a Canon 400D

[lostkat]

Originally Posted by Kitten

*strokes Tamron*

Which one??

[Tysonator]

Originally Posted by Dymetrie

Hows about this?

Hi,

I have this lens, I purchased at the same time when I got my Canon 400D.
Not a bad lens, it is light and compack. At the moment camera World are selling it for apx £70. So you can buy that fro her plus ( as mentioned earlyer in this thread ) a cable release, UV filter for the said lens.

Any problems dude, phone me

[Tysonator]

Originally Posted by Kitten

the same one Dym's buying - 55-200. That's the one I bought in SF this year - brought it with me at some point when you were there but can't remember when. Macro's not hot at all - but then I have the Sigma for Macro stuff so I wasn't bothered. Was a big decision between 200 or 300 but I felt that the futher distance lessened the quality somewhat so went smaller.

Good Call !

[Tysonator]

Originally Posted by |Show|

That was my second lens after picking up a 50mm f1.8

I know this is a little late, but i'm typing anyway
As pete said, these kind of lenses are rather soft due to them being 'cheap'

I've got my eyes on a new lens, and tbh wish i'd of picked it up first... oh hindsight and greater experience prevail. Looking at a 28-135 USM IS lens as it seems like a perfect walkabout lens having a decent focal range with a nice quiet motor and some image stablising prisms £260 but i'm sure it'll be worth every penny.

I have looked at this Canon lens, not bad really. I got a sigma 17-70mm DC macro, sharp pic's, heavy lens, build quality excellent.
I was thinking about getting used sigma telephoto lens in the 300 to 400 mm range and getting the sigma 2 x tele convertors !
Any ideas on which sigma lens which I should look at please ?

[Dymetrie]

Well the lens was presented and Jess said that she actually wanted a macro lens (fork up in communication/understanding by my brother when she said 'close ups'...)..

So it's being returned and a decent macro lens (which Jess has picked out herself) will be purchased...

*sigh*

She likes the camera bag me and Kate got for her though

[Tysonator]

Dude, at least you tried !