Lenses

The thing about lenses is that to get a damn good one you need to make photography your profession.. either that or you extemely rich. You might think that the standard kit lens (18-55mm) that usual comes bundled with your kit is pretty great which it is… but there are so much better ones out there. The L series lenses being the most expensive of them all.
Now I dont know much about lenses and have little experience, I do know what does what.
Take your kit lens for example, its a lightweight lens that you can easily walk around with. It has a decent wide angel and zoom. This is often refered to as a walk about lens because you carrying it with you most of the time.
Then you get your telephoto which is basically your zoom lens. These are typically the 70-200 or 70-300mm lenses. Note that 300mm is as far as you gonna go pre L series. I doubt you need anything beyond that reach tho.
If you come from a Point and Shoot Camera background then i think 70-300 is more or less 12x optical zoom. I’m not sure about that though.
Oh you also get your really wide angel lenses – 10-22mm or the 14mm fisheye. Some of these lenses are quite expensive.. So do extensive research on a lens you looking to buy.

Then you get your prime lens. These are lenses that cannot zoom otherwise refered to as fixed focal lens. A prime lens is usually a faster lens with wide apertures which makes it nice for portraiture and low light photography.

Macro lenses are my favourite. Allows you to focus on sumthing really tiny and make it look lifesize.. well depending on the lens itself.. Some lenses can do 1:2 macro and then some 1:1.. the one to get are the 1:1 macro lens.

A good lens will set you back R6-7000.. YES nearly the price of your camera. I’ve recently acquired a nice piece of glass for quite cheap(gumtree I thank you) and it makes a helluva difference.

One more thing.. learn to use the lens you have before exploring others.

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~ by raddo on July 18, 2008.