Great points you have and I agree. In the meantime I'll hold off for the underwater accessory and use my P/S SD900 which I already have and have a housing for.
But yes some day down the road you are correct to not get a "cheap" lens when forking out that much for the rest of the equipment.
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For a relatively affordable housing, you might check Aquatica, Fantasea, and Sea and Sea (only Fantasea is as affordable as Ikelite, but no TTL). If you have the money, Subals are awesome, but expensive.
The 40D is very new, don't know how many housings are out yet. If you want to get a good general purpose underwater lens - recommended you look at the Sigma 17-70. Lot's of people love this lens - I'll bet the cost of this lens and and an Ike housing is cheaper than most of the other housings by themselves.
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Is this Sigma 17-70 better then the Canon 17-55 USM? Maybe I can pick one up used somewhere. |
I picked up a Sigma 17-70mm lens for $400usd.
It sounds like your looking for a cheaper option for this great camera.
Even after you have forked out the $1500 for the Canon 40d you have to look at getting the following - Ikelite housing $1500 approx
- Ikelite port from $150 (Recommend 8inch dome @ $400)
- Ikelite digital sync cord $90 (recommend duel at $125)
- Strobe arms
- Strobe/s (recommend the ds125x2)
- lens for the port (most likely more than one)
So if your looking at actually setting up your Canon 40d for underwater its going to cost you alot of money to do it properly. You a try and cut costs down by getting cheaper lenses and smaller strobes but you will be selling yourself short.
figure out what you actually want to do with your 40D and work from there. You have a get camera and it wouldn't be right to have cheap lenses and small strobes with it.
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