Forum: Photography


Subject: What would you get?

PeeWee05 opened this issue on Feb 14, 2006 ยท 18 posts


LostPatrol posted Wed, 15 February 2006 at 12:14 PM

If I could only have one lens it would be a 50mm prime no question about it. My reasoning Wide aperture and fast lens good in low light You can compensate to some degree by composition move away or closer to subject (not always possible) Add close-up filters for macro type photography (not true macro but a close 2nd best) Excellent optical quality far superior to a zoom, (and much cheaper like for like) so sharp you will cut yourself. IMO every beginner should have a 50mm prime in their kit bag, to learn compo the hard way, instead of staying in one place and zooming in and out, and to experiment with the wide range of apertures that it offers.

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