Hi Alex! Welcome to the club.
Seems like you are in Israel? NOw sure what the availability of the following is there... If money is an issue, I can recommend couple alternatives that might help you while you get the rest of the gear. EOS 3 is a great body, good choice. Now that digital is all the rave, you might find good used ones pretty reasonably! I also think that a Tokina 28-80 2.8 ATX Pro is a viable alternative. It's a bit soft on long end at 2.8, but not too bad. Built like a tank and silent. I also simply LOVE the manual focusing ring/system on this lens. As for flash, I love the 550ex but switched to Sigma Super 500 which I really liked. It has pretty much everything 550ex has plus an optical slave (and works with St-e2 AFAIK, correct me if I am wrong guys). I however didn';t like this flash with digital Canon bodies. But since you have EOS 3, you should be fine. That should save you couple hundred dollars and you can get another nice lens with it. Some lenses that are considered pretty good are : Tamron 20-40mm, Vivitar 100mm macro (and Sigma and Tamron macro's as well), Canon 50mm 1.8 is something so cheap every photographer should have it (about $80US). Take care, Evrim www.evrimgallery.com > Hello dear Listeners. > I'm new boy in the block, this is my first message to the List. > > I used to be active Minolta user for about 5 years > participating in Minolta > Mailing list quite extensively until last about 6 months going off for > personal reasons. > > Now I seriously consider switch to Canon and researching the online > recourses available I currently settled up on EOS 3. Since I > used to fast, > quality lenses I'll try to keep the standards high stretching > myself for > 28-70/2.8 L USM. The telezoom will follow later. > Right now I'm selling some of my Minolta gear on Ebay and > hope to be able to > raise some cash for used or new EOS 3 body soon. Since the > money will be > gained gradually, I'll not be able to purchase all the set > (body + 38-70 + > 550EX) in one move, will have to advance as fast as money will allow. > * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
