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Best buy has the 30D packaged with the aforementioned lens and I'm wondering if it's a great deal.


That lens is a poor match for Canon's 1.6X sensor DSLRS. It's really a nice 35mm film lens, but on the 30D it becomes a 45mm (instead of 28mm) on the short end, which is not wide enough for most uses.

A far better match is the 17-85mm lens, which on this camera gives the same field of view as the 28-135mm does for film/FF.

-ml