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Lense suggestions

Started May 19, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Re: Lense suggestions

I am pretty happy with the optical quality of the kit - i think its one of the best kit lenses around but yeah its slow.  Don't think I want to spend $800 on a bulky/heavy zoom lens that both of the pro zooms seem to be.

I normally shoot medium to wide, not a lot of very wide angle so don't see myself needing a 7mm.  I guess I am just concerned with my zooms being pretty slow but I find that I take the 17mm anyway to dark environments like restaurants etc.

I used to have the 20mm f1.7 from Panasonic but sold it only because I am experimenting with video and AF is too noisy on it that I could hear it on my videos.  17mm is good for that.

I would like something that will give me shallower depth of field without going to my 45-175 zoom which does blur the background out nicely at the longer end but I need to go further away from the subject to achieve it.  So I am thinking maybe the 45 1.8 or 60mm 2.8 fits the bill.  I don't really want to spend more than $500 so the 75mm is out of question.  I don't know if the 25mm 1.4 or 1.8 are long enough to achieve background blur like the 45 or 60.

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