> I'm about to purchase a new camera! I'm thinking about a Dig > Rebel XT. I'm curious though about the lens. Currently I > have a point and shoot with a 36~110mm lens on it. The Rebel > has an 18~55mm. Does this mean that I'll have quite a bit > wider angle on the low end? I know that my fisheye convertor > on my nikon is an 8mm, but I'm not sure if they are measured the same.
I have the D30 which uses the same sensor so you will get some goot images from that camera. The 36-110mm lense on your old camera is being quoted as a 35mm equivelent as the size of the sensor makes a diference here. The sensors on all canon digitals below the 5D use an APS-C sized sensor which means you have to multiply the lenses focal length by 1.6 (1.5 on Nikon) to get it's "real" value so the 18-55 will actually be a 29-88. still a wider angle lens than your old one. The upside is that being an SLR you can change the lens, my longest is a 70-300 which maxes out at 480mm after the 1.6 crop factor. PS: Scott, you are WAY off. The focal length of the lens has nothing to do with closest focusing distance, that is something else entirely, you don't have a single lens that can focus as close as 18mm, there would be no point. Closest focal distance is measured from the film plane (or in this case the digital sensor) so 18mm would be well inside the body of the lens and completely useless! -- Jay ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213505 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
