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    What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    What lens doy ou guys typically use for your DSLR or Mirrorless cameras

    fast Prime lens?
    Zoom lens?
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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    For my Canon 1DS Mark III (full-frame), I use Canon 70x200 2.8L...95% of the time. For portraits, I use Canon 85 1.2L II.

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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    For my Nikon D610, I have a 70-200 f4, Nikon 50 1.8 and tamron 24-70 2.8

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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    A good medium range zoom is a good choice. Today the kit zooms (generally 18-55 for aps-c) are good enough for the majority of photographers. Primes used to offer the best optics but the gap to zooms is neglible today.

    That said, it really depends on how you photograph and what you want to capture.

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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    Just paint correction stuff and or beading
    And of course I'd use it for fam events and car shows

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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    Figured I'd skip getting the camera (A6300)with the kit lens and go with one or 2 of these
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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    Quote Originally Posted by nothingface5384 View Post
    What lens doy ou guys typically use for your DSLR or Mirrorless cameras

    fast Prime lens?
    Zoom lens?
    Portrait
    Pancake
    Macro?
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    Just paint correction stuff and or beading
    You can accomplish these shots with a multitude of lenses. Key to a DSLR or any camera is high quality glass.

    I shoot a lot of mine with a 70-200 f/2.8 but you don't have to spend that much. Get a good portrait lens that results in a focal length of 70-120mm and shoot it wide open to create some nice bokeh. Make the shot interesting with the background blurred so as to draw your focus on point of interest.

    Some of the newer kit lenses have really good optics and will work too. In the end as a photog, I'm biased. Just get something versatile and good quality.
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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    Fuji shooter so I'd say either an XT10 or XE2 with the 18-55 would be a good bet

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    Re: What lens for your DSLR/Mirrorless

    Also a good thing to remember: If you're shooting an APS-C formatted camera like the Canon digital rebel or a nikon DX the focal length is something like 1.2x the actual. Nikon makes a great 35mm f1.8 prime lens for about $200 that is my go-to for portraits in low light or when I want fine detail. Despite being a 35mm it looks closer to 50mm which is close to what "zoom" your eye sees.

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