Canon Digital Rebel question to Photography people

[Zaitsevs]

my main question.

are all canon lenses compatible with canon cameras?

my other question, lets say I were to buy one of the older digital rebels and then bought a lense. Would I able to upgrade the body later on?

I don't have the money to get a new digital rebel body, so I'd go with an older model.

 

[keeleysam]

All EF lenses will work with all EOS cameras.

EF-S lenses will work only on the Rebels.

 

[FilmCamera]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
All EF lenses will work with all EOS cameras.

EF-S lenses will work only on the Rebels.

Slightly incorrect. EF-S lenses will also work on the Canon 20D, 30D and of course the 20Da

 

[GTaudiophile]

EF-S will work on the Rebel, Rebel XT, Rebel XTi, EOS-20D, and EOS-30D cameras. (Not on the 10D.)

EF lenses will work on everything!

 

[aceO07]

Yes, the Digital Rebel does support the EF and EF-S lenses. You'll be fine for most future Canon DSLR cameras. Some camera don't support the EF-S lenses, that shouldn't be an issue for you.

edit: Your question has been answered a few times. 🙂 I type slow.

 

[Lalakai]

be aware that some of the competition that creates canon mount lenses, produce lenses that are tailored to digital cameras, but will also function on film cameras. Buying this type of lense will help make transition in the future a bit easier.

this is a lense that i use for my EOS 35mm but will easily move over to a digital.

 

[Zaitsevs]

Is there any simple lenses I could do a range of photography with that would be relatively cheap?

I like to do macro, landscape..portraits.

Just a general lense I suppose


thanks for the help too guys.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Zaitsevs
Is there any simple lenses I could do a range of photography with that would be relatively cheap?

I like to do macro, landscape..portraits.

Just a general lense I suppose


thanks for the help too guys.

Tamron 17-50mm. Good for landscape, good for portrait, and you can reverse mount it when you want macro. Extremely sharp too. It is probably not what you consider "relatively cheap" but I personally would not go much cheaper. Save money to get good glass.

 

[Lalakai]

lol don't shoot yourself in the foot and compromise too much on the lense. get two lenses that will cover 99% of your needs: 28-80 and 100-300 (or close to those). if you try and combine those two lenses into one lense, your quality will suffer, along with giving you a lense that's hard to manage (size and weight wise). my 28-80 is on my camera 80% of the time; it's short, light and fast to adjust. the longer lense i save for sports, nature and wildlife stuff.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: Lalakai
lol don't shoot yourself in the foot and compromise too much on the lense. get two lenses that will cover 99% of your needs: 28-80 and 100-300 (or close to those). if you try and combine those two lenses into one lense, your quality will suffer, along with giving you a lense that's hard to manage (size and weight wise). my 28-80 is on my camera 80% of the time; it's short, light and fast to adjust. the longer lense i save for sports, nature and wildlife stuff.

Actually, Tamron makes an 18-300mm that's quite small -- maybe 25% larger than the kit lens for the Rebel and light. I wasn't overly impressed with the results on my camera, but I'm using Minolta.

I won't argue the part about the quality suffering though -- really big zooms like that are always compromised. Best quality comes from primes, but I can't find any that I can afford. 😉

 

[Lalakai]

agreed on the primes and the prices. favorite portrait lense for 35mm is 105, and 180 for mamiya 330