Need lens advice - Canon dSLR

[Lux Interior]

Okay. I think you may have talked me out of getting a zoom with such a long range, but I think I would still like a zoom.

The speed isn't so vital, given that I will primarily use this for outdoor photography. I still want the wide-angle aspect for landscape-type photography.

I'd still like to keep it in the sub-$500 range.

The above mentioned Tamron 28-75 seems to fit:

http://www.adorama.com/TM2875EOS.html





As far as normal lenses, one of the articles referenced by deckeda, said that for a dSLR, one would want a 35mm lens instead of a 50mm. I only see one fixed non-50mm lens (at least for Canon) and that is a Sigma 30mm lens:

http://www.adorama.com/SG3014EOS.html?se...sigma+30mm

[Billybob]

I just got back from a week in France (just a day and a half in Paris). Since the trip was primarily business, I wanted to see how "light" I could travel. I took 50mm and 85mm primes and a Panasonic LX3 (24-50mm equivalent) for wide angle shots.

I mostly used the LX3, which was relatively innocuous, so I could pull it out anywhere. The only time I missed taking my Canon was at a dinner at a Chateau. The grounds were absolutely spectacular and the 50mm would have been a perfect complement to the LX3.

Back in Paris, I almost exclusively used the 50mm in the Musée D'Orsay. Great non-flash shots especially when you want to capture true colors. For the massive portraits that wouldn't fit into the 50mm (80mm equivalent) frame, the LX3 did the trick.

I almost never used the 85mm (136mm equivalent). It's a great portrait lens but outdoors it is either too long or too short. I think a great complement to the 50mm would be a 135 or 150mm prime.

In the future when I want to travel light, I will take the LX3, the 50 and my 70-300mm zoom. The LX3 covers wide, the 50 provides low-light indoors and the zoom covers most other shots.