Im about to pull the trigger on a Canon Rebel T2i
Anyone here have this? Comments?
I can get the body alone for 650 or the body and 18-55 lens for 735. I would also be buying a 55-250 lens for about 200 putting me at 935 or so. If I buy the body alone for 650 I could pick up the 18-200 lens for about 530 putting me at about $1200
1)The savings of having 2 lens is about $230 but is it worth having 1 lense and never having to switch? Comments
2)How important is having a lens with IS?
3)Anyone have a fisheye lense? There expensive IMO for something you proably wont use much?
4)How important is it to buy a brand name lens. Canon(expensive) vs another name(half the price)
5)Anyone shooting with a macro or wide angle lens?
Ever hear the phrase “jack of all master of none”? This applies to camera lenses. Sure an 18-200mm will give you great focal range, but at the expense of image quality.
IS helps remove some of your movement of not keeping your hand steady. Don’t confuse this with action shots, it will not help in anyway “slowing down” a moving car, person, etc to make the shot clear.
Friend had a fisheye before, he saw it as nothing more than a novelty and sold it soon after.
In terms of re-sale Canon/Nikon lenses will hold their value alot better than a Sigma, Tamron, etc.
How wide? Remember you’re looking at a T2i, its a crop sensor, meaning you need to multiply the focal length of the lens by 1.6 to get the true length.
My advice, buy it with the 18-55 kit lens, use it for a little while, see what you like, dislike, what you want to shoot and what the camera/lens won’t let you do. Then look for a new lens that will let you do that. The more you spend on better lenses the happier you’ll be. Crap lens on pro-level camera still equals crap pictures.
when it comes to lenses, dont cheap out.
the better the glass you get the better the quality of the pictures.
a picture shot with a D40 with a good lens will look the same if not better than a pictures shot with a D90 with a crappy lens.
Never used any of those wide angle attachments. When I hear wide angle, I assume an actual lens. Remember, there’s a very strong correlation between money spent and quality of optics. I have a Canon 17-40mm f/4L lens, which is an wide angle (very wide on a full frame camera, pretty wide on a crop sensor such as the T2i). It is a nice lens, great for landscapes.
Here’s a good description on what crop sensors mean if you’re unclear.