Lenses are a 10D's best friends
This posting is also known as "Lenses for wimps."
Beautiful lenses are the best things for your 10D. When selecting a lens, I first think about my photography style. I like to take landscape pictures; wide-angle lenses like the Canon 17-40 are my favorite. The 28-135 is for outdoors everyday people pictures. The bokeh is kind of OK (not spectacular), so it can also be used as a portrait lens. The 200 prime is for fast-action sports and animals. What I'm missing is a lens that will perform well in low-light indoors settings...useful for indoors people pictures and maybe also photojournalistic-type people pictures. :D For that, I'm eyeing one of the Canon primes (85mm, 100mm, 135mm).
My second consideration is size and weight. Yes, I am a wimp -- 700 grams is as far as I can go. I don't plan on getting any bigger (longer) lenses because they are plain too heavy for me to carry. The new Canon 70-300 DO IS is an interesting candidate because it is light...but the pictures I've seen so far are too soft for my liking.
The new prices that I list here are from the stores listed in the new equipment section. The used prices are from months of obsessively reading photo.net and fredmiranda.com.
What I have:
| Lens | Weight (g) | Price (new) | Price (used) |
| Canon 200mm 2.8 mkI "L" | 790 | $620 (mkII) | $460 (mkI) |
| Canon 17-40 F4 "L" | 425 | $700 | $550-$600 |
| Canon 28-135 IS | 549 | $400 | $300-$350 |
What I'm eyeing:
The following are lenses that have received good reviews and are light-weight enough (< 700 g) for me to carry. Most of them already overlap with the range of my current lenses. I don't know if I'll get any of them, though the primes are pretty nice especially for low-light or bokeh.
Primes (yummy)
| Lens | Weight (g) | Price (new) | Price (used) |
| Canon 100mm 2.8 macro USM | 600 | $470 | $400 |
| Canon 85mm 1.8 | 425 | $320 | $250 |
| Canon 135mm F2.8 soft focus | 309 | $260 |
Zooms
| Lens | Weight (g) | Price (new) | Price (used) |
| Canon 70-210 3.5-4.5 | 550 | Discontinued | $190 |
| Canon 70-200 F4 "L" | 705 | $550 | $450 |
| Sigma 70-300 APO II | 530 | $180 (deltainternational) | $145 |
| Sigma 15-30 | 615 | $540 (deltainternational) | $350 |
| Tamron 28-75 F2.8 XR Di | 510 | $330 | $275 |
| Tokina 19-35 | 390 | $200 | $140 |
Lens length comparison posted by M Irwin on dpreview.com
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Lens manufacture websites with lots of info on the specs
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