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Brendan Mulachy

Brendan Mulachy

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im looking at buying a proper DSLR rather than the glorified point and shoot i have at the moment, if your starting off what would be the best all round lens to start with. il be trying my hand at taking pics of a mixture of things just to make the choices that little bit harder

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if there was such a thing as an all round lens that can be used for everyhting then we would all own it and lens manufacturers would be out of business...

you need to give us more detail of the "mixture of things" you will be shooting..

example... landscapes and a cricket match.. there isnt a lens that will properly do both :)
 
If you're really unsure get the DSLR complete with the kit lens. Once you've used it for a while hopefully you will have worked out what you want to shoot and what lenses you want.
 
Dave,
As already mentioned, unless you are sure as to what you intend to concentrate on, it may well be worth going for a camera/kit lens combo. Whilst the kit lenses are not the best available they will certainly provide you with useable images.
My main focus is landscape photography and my 2 main lenses are both Sigma's. One is the 17-70 f2.8-4 HSM, the other is the 10-20 f3.5 UWA. I also have the 70-200 f2.8 OS HSM which I use if I want to compress an image.
I don't do portrait but I think something like a nifty fifty would suffice.
This is just to give you a rough idea and I hope it helps.

Andy
 
bigave said:
il probably be concentrating on portraits and landscapes
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As mentioned in previous posts, get a DSLR kit. The kit lens is more than enough for now, and I'm sure you will see a big difference of your images compared to point and shoot pics.
 
when you say kit is this a deal were you get the body and a couple of lenses as a package, maybe getting one from ebay or such would be better were somebody is upgrading
 
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