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€300 to spend...

  • 12-10-2008 4:37pm
    #1
    curtains
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭


    Recommend me a lens!


    Shooting on a Canon EOS, and at this stage I've pushed my nifty fifty Canon lens and 18-50 kit lens to all their limits. I've got a good flash and am otherwise happy with my setup so I'm looking to purchase a new lens.

    Shoot mainly gig photography for one particular venue so in order to jig things up a little I suppose a tele would be a good idea (though I get pretty close up as-is). That said I love portraiture and general mad shots and a wide-angle sounds appealing just for the fun-factor (though they are prohibitively expensive).

    Simply, I'd just like to get the best lens possible for that money or close. Any ideas?


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  • #2
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    Buy some gold,then sell in a few years you'll be able to afford a nice L lens :D

    Maybe the sigma 10-20
    Or the canon 28-135 is usm
    Both very different but both good!


  • #3
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    For gig stuff you might consider the 85mm f1.8

    http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=32&sort=7&thecat=2

    its a only another fast prime but highly regarded.


  • #4
    curtains
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭curtains


    Okay so I'm between two minds... that 85mm would actually do me fine length-wise. So it's down to it or Sigma's 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro... which of course has the advantage of zoom, which would be handy considering I already have a prime.

    Anybody got any thoughts on the latter?


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