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- benfal990
Ok, I want to do outdoor photography mainly. Like the sets you can see in my portfolio ( http://benfal.tv ) See Ireland, Iceland, Route 138 for exemples.
BUT, i also want to take portrait shots because iam into digiral art these days and want to create more project like those one i did recently :
I think the prime 50mm should do great job for those kind of portraits, no?
- benfal990
- Don't bother with the 50mm f1.8; get the 1.4 instead, for a couple of hundred more. Great value for money.Continuity
- vaxorcist0
.. and I might add a tripod + a generic flash to learn bounce flash with....the black foamy thing
http://neilvn.com/tangents/the-b…
http://neilvn.com/tangents/flash…- yes totally!
iam getting a new tripod this weekendbenfal99 - check out yongnuo flashes, cheap but decent.johnny_wobble
- cool thanks!benfal99
- yes totally!
- lvl_130
anyone have/used this lens?
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-28mm…i love the 50mm 1.8...but it's so damn narrow. thinking about expanding my horizon ah chachacha
- formed0
That looks like a wise decision.
There will always be more gear to lust after ;-)
- HijoDMaite0
How much are you paying for the 24-105mm f/4.0? I have a friend selling her's in perfect condition for $500
- HijoDMaite0
I just picked up the 50mm 1.4 off craigslist this morning (second time buying it)
I have the 70D + Canon 24-105mm + Canon 50mm 1.4
No I have a walk around lens during good light and a fast prime (50mm 1.4) for when the light goes down and when I want beautiful Bokeh.
Your 50mm 1.8 (nifty-fifty) will give you great results if you have good light to work with. Here are some examples of my nifty-fifty and my 70D:
So you see that little lens will give you plenty of sharpness. Of course these were edited in LR5 using basic techniques. So stop worrying about a prime or fast lens and just buy it, save your money for now. Learn how to use the nifty-fifty.
Now if you decide to buy the zoom "L" lens I can show you some pics off my 70D too. The only issue you will have with that lens is the fact that you will want to go wider and won't be able to. But you already have a 10-22 right? So you would be covered. Remember though when it gets dark you'll have to break out the little nifty fifty.
- Thanks hidjo! Yes show me pics with the 24-105 pleasebenfal99
- deathboy0
I'd say go with a sigma 18-35 1.8. Sharp. Fast. Lens of the year. I just bought one off ebay from a dealer who just got them in stock. Now there's only one left! See a lot of people talking about primes and the thing is suppose to be as sharp or sharper than most primes in its range.
- like bought i mean i clicked buy before posting. I didn't want to mention it until i ordered mine :)deathboy
- Based on what I've seen online, it's not sharper than primes.nb
- dxomark suggests otherwise. stacks up better than a 50 1.2. anyways guess its already sold.deathboy
- but tough to comapre a zoom to a prime. probably have to choose a focal length and stopdeathboy
- Continuity0
Benny, in your shoes, instead of the 24-105, I would consider getting either:
- 14mm L*
- 16-35mm L*
- 17-40mm L
- EF-S 17-55mm*Be prepared to fork out a lot of dosh for these two, new.
The reason being that the 60D is a cropped-sensored animal (1.6x FOVCF), so the 24-105 at the low end reason isn't going to be that wide at all, more like 38mm. Not exacty great for these wide landscapes you want to shoot.
All of the glass I've listed is superb, even the EF-S one; most reviews I've read say it should be an L lens, the image quality is that good. The downside to that EF-S lens is that if ever you decide to go full-frame Canon (5D3, 6D) you can't use it.
That said, the most affordable of the L lenses above is the 17-40mm. Great value for money, that one but - like all zooms - barrel distortion can be a cunt at the low end. You have to spend a bit of time in post correcting it.
- Also, unless I'm very much mistaken, the EF-S 17-55 isn't weather-sealed.Continuity
- formed0
I'd still get the 24-105 and plan on upgrading to full frame sometime soon. I know a bunch of pros that shoot with the 24-105.
I shot fashion with a 28-74 on a crop sensor for two years with no problems.
But what Cont is saying is something to consider, if you don't plan on an upgraded body in the next year or so.
- Continuity0
Alternately, save just a couple of months longer, and get either a 6D with the 24-105 as a kit lens, or a 5D3 with the same lens. That way, you get all of the benefits of having a general purpose lens like the 24-105, with all of benefits of having a full frame body at the 24mm focal length.
- I like that suggestion...no idea how much it costs, but 1 good body w/ 1 good lens is the best start, imhoformed
- It's the decision I wish I'd made before I got my 7D. :\Continuity
- benfal990
Thanks all for the infos and suggestions! I will analyse all that and take a decision.
- akrok0
- dpReview not dppreview.akrok
- here's a sample image. at it's original size 6000x4000px. >> https://s3.amazonaws…akrok
- Continuity0
Akrok, my dear boy, the _only_ reason you're recommending a Sony DSLR is because you work for Sony. Doesn't actually mean they're any good. :)
- formed0
Sony A7! Sony A7!!
- "The Sony A7R is the most significant new camera launch of 2013. There, we said it" - digitalcameraworld.c...akrok
- I had a play, the shutter is clunky and loud, and it feels very "sony" computer like. Not for me.inteliboy
- It is loud, but I don't think I've ever, ever payed attention when shootingformed
- vaxorcist0
Honestly, I'd get the 50mm 1.8, a tripod, a generic manual flash, and the infamous black foamy thing:
and shoot a TON of photos for the next 5-6 months, then maybe get a $$$ camera... it's more about the your evolving eye, and your pictures than the gear!
- and then, in 6 months,maybe save up and go buy the 24-105 or 5D mark whatever or tons of lighting gear....vaxorcist
- SimonFFM0
If you sometimes feel like the 60D is too heavy and big with a lens mounted, just buy a 40mm pancake. It's not a prime lens but the quality really is decent. I own it and have used it for several productions. It's great for travelling. With the crop factor of the 60D, it gives you a clipping equivalent to 64mm which is still ok. Plus you can go much closer to your subject which makes the lens versatile.
So my recommendation would be the 40mm pancake rather than the cheap 50mm lens. They are similar in weight but the 40mm will please you more.
(If you plan to play around with bokeh a lot than the pancake is not the lens for you.)
- vaxorcist0
The 40mm pancake lens is nice, and would do nicely for the types of compositions you showed in the black and white series above.... it is, like all non-zoom lenses a prime lens, but it is not that piricey or glamorous. It is very small and may cause you to go minimal and carry your camera more with just the 40....
Just one prime lens can help a photographer grow by learning how to see clearly and previsualize and work fast within limitations...
Also the 40 is enough wider on a 60D to be more forgiving tgan the 50
- Continuity0
In all fairness, I've been rocking the 1-lens set-up for almost a year (7D/50 1.4) and I really like it for the reasons stated above: it makes me focus on and work for the shot. The limitations of the focal length (and crop factor) are really a blessing, insofar that they force me to be more creative within the confines.
That said, yeah, I'm going to want a couple of new L primes in the future to cover both wider and longer focal lengths. The full-frame body will come later.