Help me choose a camera & lens combination for beauty/fashion headshots

[surfbum]

Thanks for the links Kernuak

The 70-300 looks wonderful with it's wide range and IS (cheaper & in budget too!)
but I don't think I should go past the 70-200mm f/4L
It seems to be a popular portrait lens and being an L series Lens should be easily worth the extra $130

I think we have a winner!

 

[dickgrafixstop]

Look at the Rebel T3 package - it's 12 meg image (more than enough up to 16X20"), the kit lens 18-55, a 55-250, and a 13X19 printer
(the ipf9000 for about $600. You can add either the 85mm f1.8 or 100mm f2.8 for less that $500 and still have a thousand and change
for a flash, studio lights, backdrop, tripod, bag, various filters (ND & polarizing for sure) and other unexpected expenses. Don't rush into
full frame - just increases the costs with no relative image quality benefits for the stuff you want to do. While the hardware is "sexy",
your best tool for image quality may well be photoshop and various add-in packages (onone, efx, others) Unfortunately, all digital images,
no matter what camera you use is only the starting point for great photographs. Good luck.