Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: Photography in the BWCA :: New camera, looking for a new lense
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BearBrown |
In my opinion, the ultra range lenses are terrible lenses. Variable aperatures, poor image quality, cheap builds, distortion, vignetting, lack of contrast, terrible for low light work, slow autofocus and so on. |
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bear bait |
quote RainGearRight: "Koda, The T1i Is a rebel.. It fits all ef and ef-s lenses. It too has a 1.6t crop. I'm looking for a good all-purpose lens. I like moving water and want a fast lens to give an image like this with a more "dreamy effect". Handheld, shutter@0.06 F12. CPL filter. " wow! you must have some steady hands... nice shot! you don't need a fast lens to do that, just a long shutter speed and a tripod. if by what you mean by "dreamy effect" is water that looks like silk. 50mm lenses are some of the sharpest lenses made and for the price a great deal. there a little more work as you have move forward or back to frame your shot instead of zooming. also great for low light shooting. since you already have the 50mm range with your 18-55mm i'd suggest getting a 60mm macro lens (still a very sharp lens). you'll have pretty much the same angle of view but with the addition of close focousing capabilities and still fast with a f/2.8 aperture. |
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Koda |
The 18-200 is one of the new breed of extremely wide-range zoom lenses, and like the rest in its class it has a few problems. Most notably, there is some distortion, vignetting and maybe a few other gremlins at the extremes of the zoom and aperture range. Working with these limitations, I find it gives consistently good quality images. When I was shooting film, I usually used a 50mm f1.8 or 2.0 lens. It was great because of the small size, image quality and speed. But with the ability to push the ISO to 1600 without significant noise, lens speed takes a back seat to zoom-ability (in my book). |
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