Canon 10D Lense?

[Gordeez]

Which lense(s) would you DSLR users recommend for my Fish Photography?
I plan on getting the 10D sometime soon...
And I was wondering what lenses. Any suggestions will be great.

[loupgarou]

canon 100mm f/2.8 macro for fish macro.
full tank: any wide angle : best choices: 17-40 f/4L or sigma 12-24

[ccplim]

sigma 12-24

This one how much?

[Gordeez]

Thanks Loupgarou!
I kinda figured id need the canon 100mm f/2.8 macro for macros.

I noticed you have the 300D, How do you like it?
Is it worth the money?
I thought about maybe buying one of those, since all I really
take pics of is my FISH!

[sugar]

You really should buy a 50 mm f1.8 if you own a CANON EOS (unless you spend some more and go for the f1.4 version

It's one of the cheapest lenses out there for canon (60-80USD), but it is an amazing sharp lens, certainly when stopped down a little. On quality/price ratio it beats every other lens two hands down.

I'm still waiting a bit, rumours rumours on the 10DII to hit the market in june.
I'll wait on this new beast, the 50 mm will be my first purchase


sugar

[loupgarou]

but why is the 50mm useful? I hardly shoot anything at 50mm. furthermore the crop ratio of most canon cams is 1.6 so your 50mm is actually giving you a field of view of a 80mm.

just because its cheap and good doesn't mean you have to buy it..

furthermore the 100mm macro acts as a good portrait lens as well.

[Drew]

the 50 is great for low light

you might also want to consider the sigma 180mm ex apo macro

the 17-40 L is well worth the money, just not for fish. thats much too wide, it wont get used.

I would get a nice all around lens to start..

I would reccommend the canon 28-105 USM, some will say get the 28-135 IS USM, but I dont think the extra 200.00 is worth it. most of the time I see sharper images coming from the regular 105 then the 135, but the IS sure will help with fish.

[Andreas Werth]

Hi,
has anyone compared these two Canon makros with 50mm and 100 mm ?
Because of that 1.6-factor your 100mm macro becomes a 160mm with your eos 10d (or 300d) - is this still useful ?

So far i had no chance to compair both lenses...
thanks

[meriadoc]

The 50mm macro by canon is a 1:2 macro - thus, half life size - the only way you'd get life size is if you get the life-size converter for it. Ripoff really - sigma make a 1:1 50mm macro. Also, the Sigma 105mm macro is on par with the canon 100 macro - some photographers say that the sigma one is sharper than the canon 100 macro.

I personally like the crop factor ;)

[DarthV]

Remember, the 1.6 factor isn't really making your lenses longer, the image sensor isn't full size so what really is happening is that you are cropping the the image... in some ways it isn't good...but in other it is a nice bonus... basically some "stop free" length and it can help DOF at "normal" distances :)

[loupgarou]

yeap; crop factor is illusionary gain of focal length.

eg: a full frame sensor has a crop factor of 1.0 (ie: uncropped), however, it will likely have a megapixel size of 12-22MB, so in effect, if you wanted to take a 6megapixel picture with it, the similar effect would be to put a ring around the lens to crop it at 1.6x

--completely illusionary--
full frame is the best.
(erm: large format is the best. but not the cheapest.) hah