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Briony

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Having been out today and tried to take a few shots I am finding myself frequently changing lenses for different shots.

I was wondering if any can recommend a good all round lens that can take some good close ups as also take a few landscape piccys a sort of all rounder really.

Does this lens exist or am I asking the outright impossible? and have to stick with changing lenses all the time?
 
Hi Briony, the whole point of a DSLR is to use different lenses for different jobs because that's how you get the best quaility. Bridge cameras usually have that kind of range but then you are stuck with a lens that does not go below about f4 so it is limited.

You are asking a lot of one lens to go close up to wide angle and still give adequate quality. Have a look at some of the Canon zooms and see if any of them have a macro facility. Sorry I can't advise more, I just change lenses.

What lengths did you find yourself using?
 
Thought I was asking too much :)

I have a Tamron 70 - 300 also a Sigma 120 - 400 and a Canon 18 - 55.

Why is it you have never got the right lens on at the right time?????:shrug:
 
Canon 24-105 or the discontinued Tamron 24-135
 
Hi Briony,
I use a 24-105 as a general purpose walkabout lens. I can get most of the shots I need without changing lenses. The only problem comes if you want a very wide angle for a landscape, then I would need to change. Image quality of this lens is superb at both ends of the zoom (and in-between too).
There are many posts on general purpose lenses (walkabout).
 
Briony said:
Thought I was asking too much :)

I have a Tamron 70 - 300 also a Sigma 120 - 400 and a Canon 18 - 55.

Why is it you have never got the right lens on at the right time?????:shrug:
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Whoa! That's quite a range :D

yes you can get lenses in the 18-55 or 24-70 or 24-105 but I don't know of anything that's going to stretch to that kind of range :)

Have a look at what you are shooting and the focal lengths that you shoot most at and round about there would be your ideal :)
 
Just finding it frustrating never having the right lenses at the right time unless I carrry them all with me, that's all.

I guess that's photography for you got to be in the right place at the right time for the right shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
There is also a 28-105 that's not too horrendous in price it's a f4.5-5.6?
 
The other alternative is to get a second body.
 
tamron do an apparently great value for money 18-270 lens, bit as the focal length gap widens with any lens, expect image quality to drop, unless you start paying megga bucks!
 
PsiFox said:
The other alternative is to get a second body.
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God I was warned that this is an expensive hobby, I like the look of the one for sale do you think I would benefit from buying a 28 - 105 mm or wasting my money be honest folks!!
 
It very much depends on what you shoot Briony. Before I bought my lenses I looked very carefully at the exif data in Adobe bridge so I could see the focal lengths I was shooting at. If most of your pics are down at 15mm then you know you favour wide angles but if they are all up in the 200-400mm range then you know you are a telephoto lass at heart.
 
To be honest I probably use my telephoto all the time except for indoors then the canon, 18 - 55 I like wildlife etc but then today there were some stunning piccys of the frost on trees etc which I needed the smaller lens and I had the telephoto on.

Never mind think I will stick with what I got for the time being can't win them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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