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I'm planning to take a dive into a DSLR later this year I'm thinking of getting a Canon EOS 450D body with a Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM Lens.

Is that a good lense choice for daily shooting or should I get something else?

If there are any owners with Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM Lens can you post 2 photos for me one with no zoom and another with full zoom.

Thank you.

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I see. My major concern is that I shake when I take photos that the reason I was looking at the IS range I don't want to have all photos that a blurry because I always thought that with DSLR you need to be rock stable.

What type of shooting? Indoors, outdoors, low light, sports?

18-55 IS will work well for indoors and low light. The 17-50 for sports and dof. Both will be fine for outdoors.

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Personally I would choose the 17-55 canon as it's 2.8 - it's VERY handy indoors in low light, this week alone I shot a birthday party for family in a restaurant and had to resort to iso800 for most shooting at 1/40-1/60 sec at f/2.8 but thankfully the 17-55 is so sharp at 2.8 you really could not notice any issues at all and the dof was excellent. Well worth the price imo but if you don't need uber low light shooting then the 17-85 is a capable lens if a bit soft wide open.

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Why is the Canon 17-55mm twice the cost of the Canon 17-85mm?

I only know of Amazon to buy from any recommendation or sites?

Any shops where I can go and get a feel of the lenses etc?

And what filters should I get?

17-55 is 2.8 across the range and has IS. It's pretty damn sharp too compared to the 17-85.

B&H is good. What type of filters you want?

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I should have been more specific but shop/sites in the UK?

With filters I'm bit confused because I thought a polarizer but turns about there is a UV filter, water filter etc unless I read something wrong should how do you select a specific filter, I do apologise for the some of the dumb questions.

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UV filters are normally used for protection. Polarizers to block out reflections--but they also help with bringing out colors in skies and such. So sunny outdoors would mainly be polarizer and UV filter the rest for protection. Don't cheap out on them though.
Thanks any recommendations for Polarizers?
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Why would you say it's the opposite of essenstial? It's a fast lens thats versitle if used correctly. You can get them cheap, they're very sharp (build quality vs the nikon 50mm isn't the best though) but it's still a quality cheap fast lens. What would be the opposite of essential? Unessential? Useless? Those lenses are far from it and compliment any camera bag!

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