Keep in mind that IS only gives you around 3 stops, meaning if you could take an unblurry image hand held at 1/60, IS would let you go down 1/30, 1/15, 1/8. However if it's a cheap as shit kit lens, it might start at 3.5, and 1.8 is around 2 stops faster than that. IS is nice, but I've never owned any lenses with it. I…
I just bought a Canon T1i (500D overseas) and am very happy with it. It's a solid starter DSLR and shoots HD Video. I'm used to the Canon UI, which is why I went that way. I'm going to pick up one of these cheap but solid 50mm lenses (effectively 80mm on the smaller sensor in the T1i)…