Lens for the 10D?

[TMR812]

I'm kinda new to this so........

Can anyone recommend a good starter lens for the 10D. I'm looking for a general snapshot/walk around lens similar to the 18-55 kit lens for the 20D.

I'd like it to have a decent wide angle, and about a 3 to 5X zoom.

Any recommendations? Anything in the $200 range that might work?

Thanks,

TMR

[Andy_T]

Hi TMR812,

welcome to the forum!

I think that's a tricky one ... there are some 18-50 and 18-125 lenses from Sigma that work on EF (not just EF-S), but I don't know about the quality.

Maybe take a look at this thread, the Tamron 24-200 does look interesting.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=48097&highlight=

Best regards,
Andy

[commando]

Welcome. I'm new here too.

You should know that in general, the larger the range the lens can cover the worse the quality will be. It's not a hard and fast rule, but it applies generally. If you get something like a 28-75 or 28-135 that would be a great lens to start with. Once you know what you want you can get better quality lenses.

[Toogy]

Well I had a Sigma 18-125 and it was fairly decent. At full wide it had some obivous vignetting problems and at full telphoto it was somewhat soft. I guess it was pretty good for a $250 lens.
I just recently sold it and have a Tamron 28-75 2.8 on order, hopefully it will be a little better performer.

[Sailare]

Read this --

http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/frary/toolbox2.htm

The Ef 28-105 is in your $ 200 price range at B& H

I have the Ef 24-85 that he thinks is a bit flimsy. Not my experience however. Very Sharp at F8 and F11. More like $ 300 however.

[Miika]

Sigma 18-50 f/3.5-5.6 DC

(DC means it is specifically designed for 1.6 crop factor - this lens doesn't work on a film SLR). It's a bit slow but it is sharp even wide open.

The price is less than 200$ - I think this is almost identical to the 300D/20D kit lense.

If you want wider aperture, they have a new model, of course much more expensive:

Sigma 18-50 f/2.8 DC EX