Comments on: Planning to buy a Canon Digital Rebel XT… http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2005/10/27/planning-to-buy-a-canon-digital-rebel-xt/ Mindblogging the world to itself Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:38:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Alexey Tarasov http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2005/10/27/planning-to-buy-a-canon-digital-rebel-xt/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Alexey Tarasov Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:29:40 +0000 http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2005/10/27/planning-to-buy-a-canon-digital-rebel-xt/#comment-9 I bought Canon 300D one and half year before with a kit lense. It is much the same like Rebel, so I can share with some my experience. Mine 300D was with the kit lense. It is not so easy to get such wide lense for a small money. Keep in mind, that if you're using Canon Rebel then the focal length of the lense must be multiplied by 1.6. But it is not about the kit lense: it was developed right for this camera and you'll get real 18-55 mm. Now I'm going to buy Canon 50mm 1.8 too, it's a great lense, my colleague has such one. But I wouldn't advise you to buy Canon 70-300 even with IS and USM. Cheap telephoto lenses are rarely good. I had the same problem of choice previous summer and decided to take Sigma 70-300 APO Super Macro. Well, nice lense, but some L-glasses from Canon of course are much better ;). Really, I can't see much benefits from the USM. It will be more silent while focusing, but I don't think one should pay such money for that feature. IS can be very good, I feel the neccesarity for it in my Sigma lense, but it also won't help you very much. With IS you can go only two exposure steps lower. I bought Canon 300D one and half year before with a kit lense. It is much the same like Rebel, so I can share with some my experience. Mine 300D was with the kit lense. It is not so easy to get such wide lense for a small money. Keep in mind, that if you’re using Canon Rebel then the focal length of the lense must be multiplied by 1.6. But it is not about the kit lense: it was developed right for this camera and you’ll get real 18-55 mm.

Now I’m going to buy Canon 50mm 1.8 too, it’s a great lense, my colleague has such one. But I wouldn’t advise you to buy Canon 70-300 even with IS and USM. Cheap telephoto lenses are rarely good. I had the same problem of choice previous summer and decided to take Sigma 70-300 APO Super Macro. Well, nice lense, but some L-glasses from Canon of course are much better ;).

Really, I can’t see much benefits from the USM. It will be more silent while focusing, but I don’t think one should pay such money for that feature. IS can be very good, I feel the neccesarity for it in my Sigma lense, but it also won’t help you very much. With IS you can go only two exposure steps lower.

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