camera lens

[O2HeN2]

I do like that canon 400, but it’s a bit more then I want to spend, but it’s tempting

I grit my teeth and when I wanted to upgrade camera bodies a couple of times, kept the money and bought glass instead when I had saved enough.

Then, once I had the glass, I upgraded bodies. It's nice just being able to bypass buying kits and focusing only on bodies. (there's a setup for 'ya)

Story from my previous generation of [film] Canons:

I had an FTb and a couple of OK after market lenses (poor college student at the time).
A local store advertised a SMOKING deal on the Canon A1 body - had to be below cost so I headed in to buy one.
Got the box in my hand and started toward the front to checkout and the guy says "You need a lens for that!" I replied, nope, I already have the lenses.
He tried to say that I NEEDED to buy a lens for that price and I showed him the ad, which said NOTHING about lenses, just the price for the body.

And that's how I added an A1 to my stable in the late 1970s.

O2

[TFOGGER]

I use an archaic medium known as "film". 4x5 sheets in a camera that's at least 135 years old, or that new fangled 220 format. I have a 35mm with a 70-210 zoom lens, but that's really too complex with the built in exposure meter and all...

[O2HeN2]

I've always wanted to play with a view camera!

O2

[fitterjohn]

I use an archaic medium known as "film". 4x5 sheets in a camera that's at least 135 years old, or that new fangled 220 format. I have a 35mm with a 70-210 zoom lens, but that's really too complex with the built in exposure meter and all...

I’ve got some of those cameras in my collection. I’ve got both grandparents cameras from back when they were 18 in the service.

[fitterjohn]

I grit my teeth and when I wanted to upgrade camera bodies a couple of times, kept the money and bought glass instead when I had saved enough.

Then, once I had the glass, I upgraded bodies. It's nice just being able to bypass buying kits and focusing only on bodies. (there's a setup for 'ya)

Story from my previous generation of [film] Canons:
I had an FTb and a couple of OK after market lenses (poor college student at the time).
A local store advertised a SMOKING deal on the Canon A1 body - had to be below cost so I headed in to buy one.
Got the box in my hand and started toward the front to checkout and the guy says "You need a lens for that!" I replied, nope, I already have the lenses.
He tried to say that I NEEDED to buy a lens for that price and I showed him the ad, which said NOTHING about lenses, just the price for the body.

And that's how I added an A1 to my stable in the late 1970s.

O2

I totally agree with upgrading glass over the body, except the last body I had still shot 35mm so I was forced to get a body

[fitterjohn]

I just found out the old lady bought me the sigma 150-600 lens for the reason” you don’t ever just get anything for yourself”. Which means 2 things:
1. She hasn’t noticed the giant safe full of guns, pile of ammo, or Camaro in the garage
2. I need to be worried about what she bought to justify buying me a camera lens

[Aloha_Shooter]

I do like that canon 400, but it’s a bit more then I want to spend, but it’s tempting. I was looking at that tamaron for an everyday. Is it a giant improvement over that canon kit 80-300? The 90d came with a 18-135 I think it was and it’s does fairly ok

I found on a previous generation of DSLR that I often wanted to change lenses right around 100-150 mm zoom range so the 18-135 caught me changing lenses a lot right when I wanted to just zoom. The 18-270 covers the range decently but of course there are always trade-offs when using a superzoom. The 100-400 is obviously better at 200+ and I'd be better off with a better WFOV lens down below 24 mm but the 18-270 gives me the range when I need it -- and honestly, a lot of my best shots are the ones I took when I could instead of swapping lenses.

I grit my teeth and when I wanted to upgrade camera bodies a couple of times, kept the money and bought glass instead when I had saved enough.

Then, once I had the glass, I upgraded bodies. It's nice just being able to bypass buying kits and focusing only on bodies. (there's a setup for 'ya)

Yep, that's the way to do it. Upgraded bodies are nice but the real distinction comes from the glass you're using. I skipped 4 generations of Canon EOS Rebels because I could.

This picture is cropped and reduced 50% in each direction (so total 75% reduction) but I only got it because I had the 100-400 lens on a 3/4-size compact sensor camera (EOS Rebel T2i) with a 2.0x Extender II --- so effective lens of just over 1000 mm.



Forgot to add: this picture I got with the 18-270 on the spur of the moment. It's been reduced to 16% original size in both directions.

[hatidua]

You can get good glass at a decent price on a prime

-yes, if speed isn't important.

and then use extenders

-try to avoid that if at all possible.

[feal]

-yes, if speed isn't important. i-try to avoid that if at all possible.

I'm almost positive that for the price a prime telephoto is going to be faster than a zoom telephoto
Why would you avoid an extender? aside from losing 1 or 2 stops ? this was taken with a 400 5.6 with a 2x ver ii (supposedly the ver iii is a lot better). Used, the setup ran me ~600$ 4 years ago. the extended range the extender gets me for its size/weight/cost is definitely worth any loss of sharpness that i normally wouldnt notice either - granted i dont make a living taking pictures

[hatidua]

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