zhutou said:Thanks all for your suggestion. I think I will go with the XSI. Can you recommend some good lenses to go along? Thanks.

Before anyone make any suggestion, can you tell us what type of photos you are planning to take? (like sports, portrait, structures, macros ...) And how much you would like to spend on lenses?

Followed the link "MSN live CashBack". Placed an order for XSi in J&R. Haven't seen any CashBack e-mail from MSN yet. Do I need to have hotmail account. I am using gmail account.

Followed the link "MSN live CashBack". Placed an order for XSi in J&R. Haven't seen any CashBack e-mail from MSN yet. Do I need to have hotmail account. I am using gmail account.

Bravo!

verklempt said:cgirda said:Followed the link "MSN live CashBack". Placed an order for XSi in J&R. Haven't seen any CashBack e-mail from MSN yet. Do I need to have hotmail account. I am using gmail account.

i have never seen a double post with a reply sandwiched in between it. its like magic!

Does this lens has Image Stabilizer ?

zhutou said:Thanks all for your suggestion. I think I will go with the XSI. Can you recommend some good lenses to go along? Thanks.

The kit lens is excellent. It has IS.

The EF-S 55-250mm IS lens is an excellent, inexpensive ($260 or so) telephoto lens to supplement the telephoto end.

The EF 50mm F/1.8 II is another great lens. It's under $100, and it's an excellent performer. It's on my Rebel 90% of the time, even though I own the 18-55mm IS and 55-250mm IS. I love the large aperture.

zhutou said:Thanks all for your suggestion. I think I will go with the XSI. Can you recommend some good lenses to go along? Thanks.

Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8

Its image quality rivals some of the Canon L lenses and it is only $400.

zhutou said:what's the 18-200mm IS lens people are all talking about? I searched and only found one Tamron one which costs about $700. Is that the one you guys are talking about?

It's brand new. Just announced. Not on the market yet. Not sure how good the IQ is, but given the outstanding quality of the new 18-55mm IS and 55-250mm IS lenses, it is assumed that it will be excellent as well.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0808/08082604canonEF-S_18-200mm.asp

FatherTed said:Kapytalyst said:

That said, I couldn't agree more that the new 18-200mm IS will be a great addition to the ef-s lens line!

If you want to call a $750 lens which does not even have USM a 'great addition'. Sorry...but Canon dropped the ball on this one.

To each his own, I guess. Canon will sell many thousands of them.

bigsmooth said:Conambo said:Anyone know if the Xsi can handle new 30mb/sec Extreme III cards? So far I heard only the D90 can support 30mb/sec.
It doesn't take CF cards, only SD/SDHC.

LOL. Thanks, but I was talking about this: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-9314-9578