Originally Posted by Darren
Darren I think you'll be just fine. For these situations the IS system definitely beats the large aperture in my opinion. That plus the zoomcapability of your lens would make it a good combo, if not...the best you can get probably.
1.4 or 1.8 aperture isn't really going to help you, unless you want to use the large aperture meaning dealing with the amazingly shallow DOF, which isn't really helpful in museums. Ýou'll probably find out that f2.8 (the 17-55 is very usable at 2.8, unlike the 50mm at 1.8) of your lens is sometimes not even good enough for museums and you might even want to crack it up to f4 or smaller.
But overall it will do the trick very well. Unless you can't take pictures at all of course. Here (Netherlands, Europe) there aren't many museums where you may actually take pictures. Flash is pretty much abandoned in every museum, and normal photography isn't something that is very broad allowed around here. Probably because a lot of people with P&S cameras don't even know how to turn the flash off [:P] Besides that you must also be carefull what to do with the pictures, because most objects in galleries and museums are copyrighted and so permit you to publish photos of them.
AnywayI wish these things don't apply to your museum and I wish you good luck and much joy!
Jan
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