I'm sure Flipfreak will get one of these for shooting animals at the Zoo.
Flip, wanna sell me your 85?
real or joking? i don't mind.
I'm sure Flipfreak will get one of these for shooting animals at the Zoo.
Flip, wanna sell me your 85?
Think I didn't make myself clear the first time, Sorry about that.
I mean, able to recommend both a budget series and high end series? using Canon 40D here. More of Landscape shooting for traveling trips.
If for landscapes, I dun think prime lens is suitable. A good WA lens like Canon 10-20mm or EFS 17-55, 17-40L, 24-105L is better.
For low budget ones, Sigma 10-20 or Tamron 17-50.
Yup, aiming for Canon 10-20mm too. But would want a Prime lens for general purposes.
Initially when i first started out for SLR photography, i always thought that zooms are better as they're more versatile as primes cannot zoom when u want to get closer or further away.
But now i finally reliased what's so gd abt a prime lens. It trains u as u've to use your feet to move in or out to compose your picture without using a zoom. In addition, primes have awesome sharpness.
but there is a limit to how much the feet can move though within the same time frame of changing focal length. i think the merit of prime is on its weight, price and optical quality rather than for its lack of range.
In addition, primes are also able to have very large apertures when compared to zooms.
... AF-D 80-200mm f/2.8 versus AF-D 200mm f/2. if the latter is cheaper, .
i think the merit of prime is on its weight, price and optical quality rather than for its lack of range.
If you need the convenience of the range, then several primes to make up the range will weigh more and potentially cost more
gd pt. in fact, i have really considered to replace prime over zoom if it is more value for money, although i still searching for what i want. at the moment, i'm looking at AF-D 80-200mm f/2.8 versus AF-D 200mm f/2. if the latter is cheaper, i may go for it, but then it isn't and AF speed is slower. also looking for suitable 30-35mm primes to complement 50mm primes, trying new perspective out.
Some pple have been doing that. I've also noticed in those photography books taken by pros, almost all of them uses prime lens instead of zooms. I suppose it's for the quality and perspective.