To all Canon 'sifus',

Need your advise with regards to some Canon lenses before I plan my purchase in the next few weeks.

I'm planning to get the Canon 400D (body only) along with 2 lenses that is able to give me an all round performance for common photography environment.

I'm already aiming to get the 50mm 2.8 EF lens for potrait & macro shots. For the second lens can anyone recommend me perhaps another good all rounder preferable with zoom function ?

Or could there be a better combination of two lenses instead of the 50mm 2.8 ?

My budget is 5k.

Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, it's really informative. Now I have more things to consider before making my purchase.

With regards to choosing between the 70-200mm and the 17-40mm, I think that 70-200mm would serve me better and I'm quite reliant on the zoom function on my current camera for normal outdoor shots. I'm just wondering whether will the 70-200mm be too heavy to carry around for my sight seeing trips.

I went to Canon Malaysia website and checked on the price for EF 70-200mm f/4L USM and it was way over RM 2,400.00. Does anyone know of any websites that have the current prices of Canon and third party compatible lenses ?

This post has been edited by Alpse: Jan 25 2007, 01:45 PM