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Message: <blockquote data-quote="john-henry" data-source="post: 1431748" data-attributes="member: 15559">Hi mrsbell,Regarding zoom lenses, the lower number is the least magnification of the lens and the higher is the greatest magnification. It is all based on a standard lens being 50mm, (roughly equal to what the eye sees), anything below 50mm is termed wide-angle and anything above is a telephoto, so a 75-300mm lens magnifies what's seen through a standard lens 1.5x to 6x and a 200-500mm lens magnifies it by 4x to 10x.Canon camera models in your price range could be - starting from the oldest - 10d, 20d and 30d in the 'xxd' range and 350d, 400d and 450d in the 'xxxd' range with the 1000d being brought out about the same time as the 400d and 450d, all except the 1000d would be outside of your budget to buy new.</blockquote>