Quote (Veilside @ Mon, 7 Sep 2009, 22:43)

Lenses depend on what you want to shoot. A fast 50mm lens (35mm lens for cropped bodies) is always good to have for anything, they're light, and can work in low light situation, also, they're cheap.
For wildlife, it depends, if you want sweeping panoramas, a wide lens is awesome, Nikon's got the best wide lenses, no contest (including a beautiful 13mm lens that's on sale on eeebay now for $17k). if you want to do macro photography, you'll need something like a 105mm macro minimum, with a 200mm being better suited for shooting insects and such.
For far away animals and sport, you'll want a telephoto, depending on what situations you'll find yourself in, you can get a low light model for lots of $$ or a cheaper, slower lens. A good zoom telephoto would be good here, a prime, while cheaper wouldn't be as useful.

Quote (CHs @ Tue, 8 Sep 2009, 22:39)

[x] nikon d5000

very user-friendly and well.. cheap for its possibilities

you should get a 18-55 & 55-200 lens kit for something around 900$

Quote (criminal101 @ Tue, 8 Sep 2009, 22:58)

cannon rocks my socks! lol

Quote (doyleo @ Tue, Sep 8 2009, 09:33pm)

First tip:
A camera is only as good as the lens it has attached

Second tip:
canon make the better lenses

Quote (Veilside @ Wed, 9 Sep 2009, 15:28)

Not too sure I agree with the latter point. Some Canon lenses are better than their Nikon equivalent and some Nikon lenses are better than their Canon equivalent.
IE, Canon's fisheye is a hell of a lot better than Nikons, but Nikon's ultra wide zoom is much better than any ultra wide zoom from Canon.