New Canon...

SheilaO wrote:

Would any Canon afficionado be able to assist me? I need to update my camera, and I will be staying with Canon as my lenses are all that make (28-135 mm, 50 mm and 18-55 mm). My present camera is a Canon DSLR 300D, and it’s twelve years old. I would appreciate some advice on the best model to get, and whether it would be a good idea to buy secondhand.

Many thanks,Sheila

Your 18-55mm kit lens may be getting a bit tired. As it is so economical to buy a new camera with an included kit lens, I recommend doing so when you upgrade, if you buy a new camera.

Your 50mm lens may be getting tired, too, if heavily-used, but it may well continue to provide good service for many more years. There is probably no need to replace/upgrade this one, yet. My EF 50mm f/1.8 is probably actually older than yours, with the somewhat-collectible “metal mount” feature, but optically identical to its successor, which was in production at the time of the 300D camera.

Your 28-135mm lens, if kept in a clean, dry place, may continue to serve well. This is a quite useful lens. This is the lens packed as a kit lens with my first 7D camera, and remained quite useful until I upgraded to an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS lens, in 2014. Its only “fault” was that 28mm is not very wide-angle when used on a “cropped-sensor” APS-C camera. I simply bought a nicely wide-angle EF-S 10-22mm lens, to complement the 28-135mm lens, soon after I bought my first 7D. Canon now makes a more-economical EF-S 10-18mm lens, though that will leave a larger gap, from 19mm to 27mm, if you choose this one to complement your 28-135mm lens.

Personally, I tended to use my EF-S 10-22mm lens at 14mm and 22mm. (Others’ preferences may vary.) After my EF-S 10-22mm lens suffered structural failure, after more than six years of hard use, which included more than one impact against vehicle doors and door frames, one tumble from a vehicle seat onto pavement, and unknown knocks while being loaned to a colleague, after which I found the filter to have been badly chipped, I would buy a replacement EF-S 10-22mm lens, if I still shot only with APS-C-sensor cameras.

I should emphasize that ultra-wide angles are an acquired taste, and you may never desire to own a zoom lens that starts at 10mm.