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While I have that entire focal range already covered a few times over, I'm tempted with the price, even just to test and resell if I don't like it. 

It's all about the lens character and IQ, and that is a great focal range, wide to portrait in one lens. I could see it being a great all around lens for street photography or a festival.

I keep hearing great things about this lens, but have never used it. Hope to check it out one day!

That EF-S 35mm 2.8 is something special for sure, even outside of macro, it's a really lovely prime.

When the lens was new, it was going for around $1100! It's a steal getting a good used copy in the $300 range these days. Mine practically lived on my 60D, then 7D MK II, switched out when necessary for ultra wide angle or telephoto, primes for portraits or macro, but honestly the 17-55 was right up there with the primes, I used it for portraits too. This still holds true on my 90D for the most part.

Good point! The EF-S 35mm 2.8 is fantastic, one of my favorites. The nifty fifty should be in every bag, great versatility at a can't beat price.

Consider the Canon 17-55 f2.8, excellent IQ, the optics (but not the lens housing) is considered L quality. It's APS-C. Good copies can be had for around $300. 

Check for dust, zoom / focus ring function, toggle mf/af, as these have stopped being sold new. I use this lens all the time on a 90D, and sent one to my sister using a 70D, we both regularly get beautiful images from our copies.

This was one of, if not the most expensive EF-S lens Canon sold, and for good reason.

Swasthi's dal fry, and tadka dal, are my go to recipes. Make it thick, the first night, and eat it with homemade naan. Make it thinner when reheating with some water the next day, and eat with basmati. 

https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/dal-fry-recipe/

https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/dal-tadka/

Having room for prep time also equals great savings for sure. Prepared food is more expensive than non prepared foods, most of the time.

Which gets me to thinking, tempeh is bean based, expensive prepared, and cheap to make at home if you have time and space!  So there's another one. I made some amazing tempeh gyros once, highly recommended.

Awesome, I'm glad these are helpful! I'm an on again, off again vegan, and cook a lot from scratch. 

My significant other mentioned how many variations of rice and beans we were doing one week, and while there are a number of great recipes (like arroz con gandules, mujadarra, Jamaican peas and rice), it got me to thinking of all the awesome food I've tried over the years, and how they were prepared.

I went down a bean / legume recipe rabbithole at that point, and have never looked back!

edit to add: a lot of these recipes  are cheap to make, and addictive. Pupusas, for example, can be made with less than $10 of ingredients, and that's if you need to buy everything first. Once you have like a bag of masa, beans, gallon of corn oil though, each pupusa probably costs like 50 cents or less to make moving forward.

Build up a good collection of spices from a variety of cuisines, and you could probably make a bean based dish every night for a month, and never repeat the same recipe! Spices usually last for a number of meals as well.

Bought a spice you've only used once, for a particular recipe? No problem! Start looking up new recipes that use that spice.

Have fun with it!

Caramelizing the onion really elevates this dish.

Similar: https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/alasanda-vada-recipe-lobia-vada-baked-and-fried-recipes/

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/guyanese-pholourie-recipe-5220589

Lots of great variations here, with different beans/legumes from many cultures. Falafil, pholourie...

Try pupusas, falafil, Guyanese pholourie, Trini doubles, alasanda vada! Look to recipes from cultures that use these ingredients traditionally, for the best recipes! Each of these dishes are made with beans or legumes, and have a crispy element to them.

https://cookingwithria.com/2018/12/how-to-make-trinidad-doubles-detailed-recipe-instructions/

https://myhomemaderecipe.com/recipes/homemade-masa-cheese-pupusas

https://www.cheftariq.com/recipe/falafel/

https://www.alicaspepperpot.com/guyanese-pholourie/

https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/alasanda-vada-recipe-lobia-vada-baked-and-fried-recipes/

No one with any sense would run "vibe" code on expensive equipment. The Magic Lantern team is making progress on Digic 8 and X, and that progress includes lots of testing, on the equipment available to a volunteer team.

If you do end up making this, do not call it Magic Lantern.

Wide angle, non-rectilinear.

Consider a 90D, or 7D mk II used. Both are a big upgrade over the SL2, and have better specs than anything you can get in the mirrorless realm for the price.

Can't go wrong with smoked whitefish! If that's not possible, smoked salt really kicks things up a notch too.

Have you considered the EF-S 10-18? Not sure if you're shooting FF, or APS-C, but if APS-C, it has some of the best IQ I've seen on a lens, is cheap, and light weight.

A real one! Thanks friend, will check.

Very cool.

Oh wait, do we mean LA as in state, Louisiana, or L.A. as in the city in California? I could see a rainforest plant doing well down in Louisiana.

Looking closer, this actually does resemble some sort of citrus more so than cat's claw, the thorns are wrong, leaf and stem doesn't look right. Then again, maybe there are different varieties that I'm not aware of.

Sweet! I used to get the bark from botanicas to help my grandmother's arthritis. I'm definitely going to look into growing this. Did you get seed, or a cutting? If you drop a link I'll be your bff lol

Does that survive in L.A.? I though it was a rainforest plant.

Swathsi has never failed me: https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/

With the 90D, there's not even reason to "upgrade" to mirrorless, unless you need animal eye detect or more than 11fps. It does all the typical mirrorless stuff in liveview, focus peaking, dual pixel, human eye detect, uncropped 4k for video, 120fps slow mo (no c-log though), etc. etc.