Questions about EOS Rebel Xsi Black 12.2 MP Digital SLR Camera?

Question

I am thinking that this is the digital camera I am going to buy. I can buy it without a lens but, I don't know if my lenses from my Canon EOS Rebel Ti (Film camera) will work with it. My Lenses are Tamron. Please help me figure this out - Thanks

Answer 1

All Canon EOS lenses will fit and work on your new Rebel.  Third-party lenses are sometimes a c**p shoot, so you do not find many people who do this as a living shooting any thing but Canon lenses.

Answer 2

Both cameras use Canon EF mount, therefore your lenses will work with the new camera. However, because of Xsi's smaller sensor size - the lenses will have 1.6x magnification factor. What this means, that the coverage of each of your lenses will be 1.6x times of what it was on the film body. So your 28-80 lens will become 45-128 as far as coverage is concerned (it will still perform same way as far as focusing distance, DOF, etc).

So you may want to consider the kit 18-55 lens  to cover the wide angle, unless you already have a similar lens, or you don't need this kind of wide angle coverage. Or if you already have this kind of lens - a different, 10-20 lens or something similar for really wide angle (10-20mm lens will cover same as 16-32mm on film body).

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