Canon 30D - Help with Choice of Lenses!

I have purchased a Canon 30d body and would appreciate some imput on which lenses to start with. I will be shooting some weddings and portraits, and an occassional auto and motorcycle race. From reading posts I was impressed with the depth of knowledge and thank you in advance for your time and expertise. I'm not brand new to photography but pretty close.

Sorry All. I didn't see the lense posting section. I'll move my post over there.

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checkout the stickies in the lens section that should give you some good ideas you have alot of choices

If I was starting out, the first lens I would get is the 17-55 f2.8 IS

This lens lives on my 30D.

This lens seem to be very popular with the wedding photog's.

Yes look at the 17-55 IS. Awesome lens for the money and very popular in the wedding line. I'm saving up for it myself. If you can't afford that one, ~1,000 then look at the Tamron 17-50 f/2.8. Great optics for the money but no IS. Only around $400.

The 17-55 is EF-S body compatible only. Which means it will only fit on the 300D (Rebel)/350D (XT)/400D (XTi)/20D and 30D - and nothing else.

It doesn't have the build quality of an L series lens either, however the image quality is hard to fault.

I could quite easily shoot an entire wedding with this lens (in fact I have done so in the past with the aid of maybe 4-5 shots from the 70-200).

Consequently, the 70-200L f2.8 IS - 70-200L f4 IS or perhaps the f4 may assist for reach and superb quality - for your motoring shots.

Though not an L lens, the 1.8 85mm is an excellent portrait lense, and great for shooting indoor sports too where the lighting can be iffy. It has great image quality, and excellent bokeh. If you don't need super wide angle on your 1/6x crop body 30D, the 16-35 2.8L is a very good lens too.

You've already been given the right advice in this thread. Caonn 17-55IS (17-50 Tamron if budget won't allow the Canon) combined with a 70-200 and an 85 f/1.8 make a perfect starter kit that you can build on and not have to replace later.