warning: the following is mostly waffle, but would appreciate any thoughts and anyone who can keep up with what i'm saying.
Right, i think this is what i will be doing possibly in the next three or so months (this depends on getting a healthy-ish profit after selling the flat). fingers crossed, i'll have about a $1700 budget to do this:
10D body, imported from the US, $1300
now lenses is where i need the help. If i got a
Sigma 18-50mm f/3.5-5.6 DC and 55-200mm f/4-5.6 DC Two Lens Kit , would I be happy? it would leave about 150 bucks for a spare battery and a bag, so financially they make sense. but i don't know why these two would come as a pair - what makes them ideally suited as a twin-pack?
mostly i like taking portraits (well the missus, too scared to ask anyone else) and landscapes, cars, buildings and urban things generally.
i won't need a macro lens (i intend to liberate dads as he's never used his, hence the resolute canon purchase plan), just a couple of handy reliable lens's for day to day pictures.
i am also at a loss as to the numbering - i know f numbers mean depths of field. my compact does f2.8 to f8.0. from the lens description, am i right in thinking that slr lens's are more limited? i like using a shallow DOF, can this be done effectively with either lens described above? i suspect the 55-200 means zooming - i think my current lens on the compact zooms 3x - do any of the above improve on that? does 55-200 mean almost 4x? and if so, why don't they just say that??
also, anyone knows a REALLY good glossary for the types of lens's out there. there are so many types, and i have no idea what's good.
or should i just go "pah!" and get a 300d with the normally cursed 18-55 EFS?
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