Advice

[labrie22]

I have recently began studying photography and have just purchased the Canon 10D. I am interested in purchasing a lense or lenses for this product but am a greenhorn.

I take pictures for events in and out doors, some portraits and aspire to shoot landscape images while traveling.

I would greatly appreciate any and all advice :wink: .

[Belmondo]

It's really impossible to answer a question like this without some parameters.

What about price range, for example?

[Jon]

And what do you already have besides the 10D body? Are you enrolled in a course or courses where assignments may influence what you'd need?

[yallcome]

http://www.pbase.com/cameras

See what lenses do what. Take a look at the Canon lineup, the Sigmas, the Tamrons, and see what people shoot with different lenses and what the qualilty is like.

[ron chappel]

The usual advice for beginers is to definitely get the 50/1.8 non-zoom lens.It's cheap but has excellent optics.
That would make an excellent portrait/low light lens (you WILL need a low light lens for indoor events)

Also ,if you want a zoom you should try to avoid the cheap kit zooms (35-70,28-80,28-90,etc) and get one of the better mid range zooms.Very few people are satisfied with the cheapies but most find the mid priced ones excellent.These are the 28-105(the f3.5-4.5 only!), 24-85, and 28-135 IS
The trouble is that you want to do landscapes and the zooms listed above are not wide at all when used on the 10D :cry: .

You will have to get a wide zoom or wide prime(non zoom)
The canon wide zooms start with the 20-35mm and go up in price (and quality) from there

[Jesper]

Have a look at the Canon EOS Beginners FAQ (http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/). It contains a chapter about lenses and gives you an idea of the categories of lenses that are available.