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Need help with lens purchase strategy

Started Jan 5, 2013 | Discussions thread
amosf
amosf Contributing Member • Posts: 680
Re: Need help with lens purchase strategy

It's always nice to have a plan.

I tend to just get a lens to do a job at a price I can afford. lol

Not sure about the 35 as a portrait. Might be a bit short, but a 30/1.4 style lens is a nice all round lower light lens. It gives a decent view angle on a crop camera.

Have you considered a 15-85 as a general purpose lens? 24mm is not that wide on a crop. Seems like you are buying lenses with the though of moving to a FF camera. Any particular reason for FF? I actually prefer the crop cameras as an armature for the weight. Lenses also tend to be lighter and cheaper for crop cameras. But if FF is the way you want to go, then fair enough.

Don't completely dismiss third party lenses. There are some good ones out there. If you hang around here you will hear about them

And yeah. Choosing the next lens to buy can be hell Especially on a budget. I went for the Tamron 17-50 2.8 non-VC as an all round lens...

 amosf's gear list:amosf's gear list
Canon EOS 550D Canon EF 50mm F1.8 II Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Tamron SP AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro +3 more
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