Which Lens keeping in mind upgrading

[JKD]

Ok well, I'm planning to learn on my new digital rebel with kit lens for a couple years. I'm wondering what lenses would be a good choice now, that would be useful when I upgrade to the 20d equivalent in a few years. What should I look for? Whats all tis worry about full sensor lenses?

Thanks in advance.

PS: Id be shooting indoors

[ssim]

You really didn't specify what kind of indoor shots, family stuff, available light, indoor sports, etc.

If you are looking for a good all round lens and your wallet isn't stretched too far I would highly recommend the 24-70 f/2.8 L. This spends more time on my camera than most other lenses. If you need to go wider there have been some good reviews of the 17-40 f4 L. I personally have the 16-35 f2.8 L but it is more than the 17-40. There are a number of other manufacturers that you can revert too but as I don't have any other personal experience with them I will leave it to them to comment on them.

[pcasciola]

Since you mentioned indoor shooting, the Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Xr Di and Canon 50mm f/1.8. Under $400 for both, and they are both excellent, fast indoor lenses. Best $400 I ever spent.

[Andy_T]

JKD,

welcome to the forum!

You'll like both the forum and your new DRebel.

Pascaiola gave very good advice on which lenses you should get.
(SSIM's advice is also good, but given the fact you plan to use the DRebel and kit lens for some years, I'd assume that money is a consideration - like for most of us)

Best regards,
Andy

[JKD]

Yes it is, I don't really have 1000+ dollars to spend on a lense but I will definately check out the two lenses pcasciola mentioned. The price vs quality is quite attractive.

Thanks guys.

Any other suggestions?

[Longwatcher]

If you can go a bit more, The 50/1.4 is slightly better then the 50/1.8. You get a bit more aperture and the Bokeh (how it looks in the blurry parts) is also slightly better. But if on a very tight budget stick to the 50/1.8.

If you know you are sticking to the 1.6x format with a 20D in the future then might as well consider the 10-22mm EF-s lens, But if you might possibly going to 1.3x or FF in the next 4 years then don't bother.

As to 1.6x versus full frame. I am of the opinion that eventually Canon will go FF with all cameras in it's product line as a necessity to get higher resolution. It will probably be 6-12 years on the consumer side before they go there though. They are starting to approach the physics limit on the sensors (although they still have some room to go yet) and so will be forced eventually to go with a bigger sensor. They key to watch is pixel size (not number of pixels). When it drops below 2.8um that is where they will start having to switch over to FF. At 0.75um they will have no choice. They are between 2.8um for P&S and 7.8um on the high-end cameras right now.