Cameras & Camcorders

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Hi

I have recently retired and hope to purchase a Canon Eos 50D shortly.

As a new comer to digital photography I would like advise on lenses to buy please,

as I am totally confused by the array of different lenses on offer.

I need : ,

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Fixed Focal Length Lenses

Long-Range-Zoom-Camera-Lenses

Wide angle lense

All assistance appreciated.

I feel you should refer to the range available in Best buy

Thank you in advance

Liam

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Are you planning on buying a 50D kit or just the body? Maybe start out with the 50D kit with the 28-135 and buy a 70-300 also. This should give you a good range to start until you find what kind of photography you enjoy. Canon has a good wide angle in the 10-22mm. Its not too expensive ($850 I think).

Lens choices depends on what you are planning to shoot. For example when I shoot weddings (I use Nikon BTW so the lens sizes are Nikon sizes) I use a 14-24 F/2.8 for the formals mainly, 28-70 F/2.8 and a 70-200 F2.8. Alot of times I have to deal with low lighting and some churches actually wont let me use a flash inside the chapel. For motorsports and airshows, I'll bring the 12-24 F/4 (for ground displays at airshows), 70-200 F/2.8, 300mm F/2.8 (for motorsports), 500mm F/4 or the 600mm F/4 for airshows (mostly the 600 goes, but the 500 is fine for the local one since we're closer to the flight box). Senior & family portraits 85mm F/1.4 for seated shots and the 28-70 for the outdoor/hobby shots.

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Allen has a good description of the different types of lenses here. http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Cameras-and-Camcorders/DLSR-Lenses/td-p/70780

[Entropy]

I would reccommend something like the kit lens for that camera to start with, and determine where you want to grow from there.

An 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 lens is pretty common across all manufacturers.

I have a Sigma 18-250 DC OS HSM (not available at BB I think) and it is an excellent travel lens.  Its performance is unusually good for a superzoom.