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Canon 800D - new lens or new body?

Started Jul 21, 2020 | Questions thread
magikald New Member • Posts: 3
Re: Canon 800D - new lens or new body?

Goggatjie wrote:

Thank you all for the time to comment. Yep. I definitely need more money lol... this is abundantly clear now!!

I do know that I need to move on from my 800D but, considering my limited budget, I think I’ll go for the Sigma lens for now to compliment my current set of lenses. Then start some serious saving for a new body in a couple of years time. 90D looks like the next step up for me.

Strange having regrets 2 years after the camera purchase but then its all a learning curve and I realise I have so much more to learn.
I think quality night photography (plus a quality macro lens) will need to wait for now. Cant have my cake and eat it too... For macro, i have a set of extension tubes which while finicky (in my opinion), they do rather well, the only issue i find being their very narrow fov.

Thanks again everyone, really very much appreciated.

I just wanted to make sure to mention, if you know you will get into night photography later, make sure the lens you buy now will fit a full frame camera. I feel APS-C just can't compete at all with a full frame in that dept.

Don't be like me and have to buy a whole entire system down the road. I am really bummed I can't use my 3 lenses with a new body.

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