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Upgrading lenses for travel

Started Jun 3, 2016 | Discussions thread
Spectre38
Spectre38 Regular Member • Posts: 466
Re: Upgrading lenses for travel

I use the 14-140 most of the time and only swap to a prime when I see something amazing.

The superzooms are most useful hen you don't have a lot of time to change lenses. Granted, it only takes a minute, but you gould be shooting lotzs of photos in that minute. Or if you just don't want the hassle of constantly changing lenses.

Keep in mind 16mp is pretty sharp anyway, you only really need super sharpness if you are going to blow the image up larger than 14" or heavily crop it. For routine uses: online viewing and photos for the wall or video, you kit lenses will out perform the medium anyway. 2MP for online viewing, 6mp for prints, 2mp for full HD video, and 8mp for 4k video.

Folks who shoot birds need all he resolution and zoom they can get because they heavily crop the images.

There is a subtle sharpness difference with high end lenses but at those resolutions its probably only for the pixel-peepers.

When I shoot models, I like to use a prime for the details in the eyes, but the kit lens I originally shot with did an amazing job too.

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Olympus PEN E-PL2 Panasonic Lumix DMC-G6 Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II ASPH Mega OIS Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A Sigma 60mm F2.8 DN Art +4 more
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