I'm going digital, finally

Digital camera, that is. I've just placed an order for a Canon 20D with the 17-85mm IS lens, a 75-300 IS lens, Speedlite 580 flash, 4GB Sandisk UltraII CompactFlash (and a cheap laptop PCMCIA converter), a batch of filters (to help compensate for purple fringing when the 17-85mm lens is wide open, I plan to leave a UV filter more or less permanently on it, except for ocean or sky shots, where I might switch out to a circular polarizer), filter converter (the 75-300 is a 58mm, and the 17-85 is a 67mm — I hope I can use the converter with the lens hood; if not, I'll have to order a second polarizer), battery grip, new camera bag, and basically most of the accessories listed on the Wiki entry I've been using to keep track of the gear I was interested in.

Total cost looks like it's going to be about $3,500, which is bloody expensive, but this is a very nice camera that I expect to last me for many years, and I hope it will be worth it in the long run. Since the 17-85mm lens has some pretty severe barrel distortion and chromatic aberration at the 17mm side, there's actually one more lens I'd like to fill in the low-end gap: the EF-S 10-22mm. This is a very high quality lens, but would bump me up above $4,000, so I'm going to try to do without it for now. I purchased the main camera kit itself from Stop 4 Camera, but the rest of the gear is coming from B&H Photo Video.

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