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Whats a good lens for taking portraits, i have a canon rebel xti..
 
For full-length to cropped at the waist, a 50mm would be OK.
For head and shoulders shots, anything from 70-200 would be OK

A good-quality zoom would probably suit you best unless you want to go the expensive route and buy high-quality prime lenses.
If you're hyper-critical about quality (and I mean hyper-) then Primes are probably the way to go, but it'll cost more.

A good-quality zoom lens allows a range of focal-lengths to be used, so something between 50-200- I'm sure someone more familiar with Canon's range of lenses will be along shortly to give you some exact examples...
I'd buy two lenses: a 'standard' zoom and a telephoto-zoom; something like a 24 or 28-70mm and a 70-200...
Apparently Canon do quite a selection around those focal lengths, so finding ones to suit your budget shouldn't be a problem - and if new lenses are out of your price-bracket, consider a good used item...
 
It depends on the size of the studio, the location, the crop factor of your camera, how much of the person(s) you want in the frame but 50mm is a good start. You may want to try something a little longer. Might be worth taking your camera to a local shop and trying a few lenses and seeing how much you get in the frame at the distance you are going to be using.
 
Arkady said:
I'd buy two lenses: a 'standard' zoom and a telephoto-zoom; something like a 24 or 28-70mm and a 70-200...
Apparently Canon do quite a selection around those focal lengths, so finding ones to suit your budget shouldn't be a problem - and if new lenses are out of your price-bracket, consider a good used item...
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:agree: because you have a crop sensor camera, you'll need to take that into account when buying lenses. The 50mm would frame like a 80mm lens on your camera due to the smaller sensor (50mm x 1.6 = 80mm), but some kind of budget would help as the 24-70mm f2.8 and 70-200mm (depending on which version f4, f4 IS, f2.8, f2.8 IS) ain't cheap.
 
yes as said above budget would help in making your decision. remember take into account locations and crop factors because you can find a lens that is tailored to your needs.
 
if u dont wanna go balistic on price but still get an expensive yet great lens then the 17-55 2.8 or the almost as good but blashpemically cheaper same range Tamron should work wonders

yet 50 1.8 just got it yesterday and I love it. couple it with a tripod and its a really good lens

As for long zoom 55-250 IS is dead cheap and heard some very good reviews on them
 
As said previously, it all depends if you are in a studio or outdoors. I use four different lenses for portraits in my order of preference they are 1. Sigma 70mm f2.8, 2. Canon 50mm f1.8, 3. Sigma 70-200mm f2.8, 4. Sigma 24-60 f2.8

The quality of the prime lenses are definately the best and the 70mm f2.8 is the sharpest wide open.
 
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