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Best low light lens for 700D

Started Jul 9, 2018 | Discussions thread
aequalis Junior Member • Posts: 39
Re: Depends

Corbula wrote:

With the f/2.8 is that much of an improvement in low light over f/3.5? I know it's 1 stop isn't it? But that doesn't mean much to me without visual comparison.

It's even just 2/3 of a stop. For example, when you need ISO 2500 at f/3.5 and 1/60 s with your kit lens, you can lower the ISO to 1600 or increase shutter speed to 1/100 s. That's not much, but your kit lens offers f/3.5 only at the wide end. The more you zoom in, the more you will profit from the faster aperture of the lenses I mentioned.

To my knowledge there is no lens, which provides a faster aperture than f/1.8 and image stabilisation at once. For your subjects image stabilisation is more useful since they're usually not moving.

MikeJ9116 wrote:

I think image stabilization is more useful than a wider aperture. Once the crop factor is applied to the aperture a f/1.4 becomes an effective f/2.2, a f/1.8 a f/2.9, f/2.8 a f/4.5 etc. so you lose a lot of the benefit of the wider aperture.

That's only true when talking about depth of field. In terms of light f/1.4 stays f/1.4 and that's what the TO is looking for.

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