What was your SECOND lens?

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Canon 85 f/1.8

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Suzanne

Those years ago when I brought a 300d I purchased the excellent 28-135 IS as the lens I used the most for short-medium focal work and then I manage to save up enough for the 100-400 L IS very good zoom lens but bit heavy.
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pdxJaxon said:

I wanted the reach for birds\wildlife. That's why I picked this over
the 70-200 F4 L

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Gregory A. Jackson

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I went for the 70-200 mm F4 L lens, wanted better picture quality versus 100 mm loss of reach and IS

then:

Sigma 18-50mm 2.8
Sigma 10-20mm sold
Canon 50mm 1.8
Sigma 105mm
Sigma 50-500 Sold
Canon 70-200 f4 IS
Sigma 10-20mm (again - this time a better copy)

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Just got it this week and am absolutely mad about it! Fantastic! It makes even ME take good photos! I have so many nice photos of my kids now that even if I binned it after this week it would have been well worth the £50 (Just to clarify... I'm NOT planning to bin it!)

My wife is getting a little tired of the hundreds of shots I am now taking of every little thing though

My second lens was the kit lens since I paired my xt body with a 28-105 and found that I had problem with it at parties where I had no room to move back.

So when I bought a second xt ( a used one) I made sure it had the kit lens.

I currently have two bags. In one, I usually have the 24-105 on the body and the kit lens inside the bag.

In another bag I have an 85mm on the body and the kit lens as a reserve.

I usually carry with me the first bag. If I am hired to shoot a party or a gathering I carry the second bag and bring another fellow to carry the first bag and ask him to shoot from an angle I can not cover.

I also have a 135mm f 2.8 and a 28mm f/2.8

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slowshotmax

A great lens. Made me appreciate the Bigma 50-500 even more.

Shifter.
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Say Cheese said:

Just curious...

For those of you who, like me, the 300D or the 350 was your first
DSLR, and you got the kit lens with it, what was the next lens you
acquired?

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1st was the Canon EF 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 USM I
3rd was the Canon EF 50 f/1.8 II
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Peter



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NT

SHORT ANSWER: 70-300/4-5.6 IS, 10-22/3.5-4.5, 85/1.8 (all together)

VERY LONG ANSWER:

I've been planning a 3-4 lens system ever since the Rebel XT/350D came out. However, I didn't want to get locked into one system (Canon or Nikon) until I am sure which of the two systems to go with. (Although I have been dreaming of owning an EOS system since the first FILM Rebel came out in 1991-1992.)

Canon System:

• Rebel XT/350D or Rebel 30D or Rebel XTi/400D
• UWA: 10-22/3.5-4.5
• Walkaround: 17-55/2.8IS
• Telephoto: 70-300/4-5.6IS
• Macro: 100/2.8 (or 300/4L IS or 100-400L IS)

Nikon System:

• Nikon 80D
• UWA: AF-S 12-24/4
• Walkaround: 17-55/2.8 (or 18-200VR?)
• Telephoto: 70-300VR
• Macro: 105VR (or telephoto prime)

Unfortunately, not wanting to be locked in too early meant I couldn't buy ANYTHING (not even a Rebel+18-55/3.5-5.6 kit). This lasted for many many months.

Well, recently I got interested in astronomy/astrophotography, and one comparo article (Canon XTi vs Nikon D80 vs Pentax K10D) in the SkyNews magazine contributed the last straw and sold me:
http://www.skynews.ca/PDF/SLRcameras.pdf

Even then, I wasn't sure if I should wait for the 40D, but BestBuyCanada came out with an amazing special (XTi, 18-55/3.5-5.6, BG-E3 Grip, extra battery, 4GB Lexar card, bag, filter), all for what the XTi/18-55 kit usually sells for. So here I am.

Anyway, 70-300/4-5.6IS, 10-22/3.5-4.5, 85/1.8, filters/hoods, and Tamrac bag all followed within 2 weeks of the initial XTi purcahse. (Also the RC-1, additional CF card.)

This is what happens when paralysis-by-analysis suddenly lets go.... Near-instantaneous system-builting. (And near-complete depletion of the hobby bank account.)

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Both the EF 70 - 200 F/4 and EF 50 F/1.8 at the same time. Dont' regret either
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Just got a 400D and now waiting for my 28-135 IS to arrive.

Canon 17-85IS and now it's always on.

EFS 10-22mm for me.... loving it.

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-Canon Rebel 350D
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I got one of the first Rebel XT kits, but also bought the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 at the same time. It's been on the body 80 percent of the time since then, with the kit lens coming out only when I need to shoot wide-angle (a few landscapes, and also one time aboard a yacht).

Howard

Tamron 17-50mm 2.8