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Looking for some advice before buying.

Started Nov 19, 2016 | Questions thread
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Re: Looking for some advice before buying.
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As far as lens choices, you might want to ask the people on the Canon SLR Lens Talk forum about them. One of Canon's strong points is the lenses. People like myself also use Sigma or Tamron lenses, but I'm not familiar with the type that you are investigating. The newer Canon kit lenses are good especially if a person stops down them a little. After four years, I'm still using mine probably because I don't pixel peek as much and I rather focus on photography as a whole with subject matter and composition etc. And it's only a hobby for me. You can see my photos on the weekly Show Your Snaps thread to give you an idea. All of them are with the Canon kit lenses or my Tamron 150-600mm lens.

From what I've seen of 100% crops, there are better lenses than the kit lenses that do deliver that extra degree of sharpness that you may want. And there are other advantages as well. But I wanted to let you know that the STM kit lenses that Canon provides with their Canon DSLR cameras do give us good quality, if a person wants to start there.

Here's one recent picture I took with my older non-STM kit lens. The newer STM lenses are supposed to be better. When you are beginning with your new camera, do you really need something better than this? If you do...again...check out what information you might get from the Canon SLR Lens Talk forum.

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