Post by gadgets88 on Jun 1, 2007 13:44:36 GMT 8
Manually forked from the thread of "Need help in choosing a digicam"
couldn't agree with you more, GADGETS i find it crazy the way newer models now seem to be all about increasing the megapix.
"It's the photographer, not the camera."
maybe most of the time, but not all the time i've looked at some professional wedding photos, and if the photographer had not been using powerful lens the shots would've looked sadly ordinary.
Let me rephrase, it's the photographer and the lenses, not the camera.
For a long time I couldn't comprehend what I was doing wrong.
I see those guru's churning out crisp and crystal clear photos that I cannot match.
Then I met a guru who gave me a long lecture, a series of lectures actually, because he was fond of giving them (for free, just like me). ;D
I realized all this time I was using consumer lenses, instead of using midrange zooms and professional-grade "luxury" zooms (called L lenses).
Canon sell a number of lenses in a special series they refer to as L for “luxury.” These are their most expensive and highest-quality lenses, and are readily identifiable by the red stripe painted around the end of the barrel.
Then I discovered that there are even better alternatives than L lenses (which cost an arm and a leg, btw).
These non-zoomable lenses are called Primes.
Again, there are inexpensive primes such as the 50mm 1.8 II that cost less than P4K.
Primes however are not suitable for events (which is my specialty) because you have to physically move yourself to close or widen the distance from your subject!
Anyway, after using a midrange lens, I discovered that my portrait shots come out way too different from the ones I used to get.
With everything being unchanged except the lens,
I therefore conclude that it was the lens that was keeping me from getting crisp crystal clear shots all these times.
Sooo......
I'm actually pulling my hair whether to sell my midrange lens in favor of the professional lens for an even better work output!
However, remember that a midrange lens cost 7 times the cost of a consumer lens and a luxury lens cost 20 times the cost of a consumer lens.
I'm still weighing the risks involved.
Dropping a midrange lens is like losing a cellphone.
Dropping a luxury lens is like losing your arm!
To go ahead or not to go ahead...
that is the Q!
Anybody here using a Canon system and an L lens?
How is it?
whoopi said:
"Higher is better but I would choose the 3MPix fullsized camera over the 8MPix compact."couldn't agree with you more, GADGETS i find it crazy the way newer models now seem to be all about increasing the megapix.
"It's the photographer, not the camera."
maybe most of the time, but not all the time i've looked at some professional wedding photos, and if the photographer had not been using powerful lens the shots would've looked sadly ordinary.
Let me rephrase, it's the photographer and the lenses, not the camera.
For a long time I couldn't comprehend what I was doing wrong.
I see those guru's churning out crisp and crystal clear photos that I cannot match.
Then I met a guru who gave me a long lecture, a series of lectures actually, because he was fond of giving them (for free, just like me). ;D
I realized all this time I was using consumer lenses, instead of using midrange zooms and professional-grade "luxury" zooms (called L lenses).
Canon sell a number of lenses in a special series they refer to as L for “luxury.” These are their most expensive and highest-quality lenses, and are readily identifiable by the red stripe painted around the end of the barrel.
Then I discovered that there are even better alternatives than L lenses (which cost an arm and a leg, btw).
These non-zoomable lenses are called Primes.
Again, there are inexpensive primes such as the 50mm 1.8 II that cost less than P4K.
Primes however are not suitable for events (which is my specialty) because you have to physically move yourself to close or widen the distance from your subject!
Anyway, after using a midrange lens, I discovered that my portrait shots come out way too different from the ones I used to get.
With everything being unchanged except the lens,
I therefore conclude that it was the lens that was keeping me from getting crisp crystal clear shots all these times.
Sooo......
I'm actually pulling my hair whether to sell my midrange lens in favor of the professional lens for an even better work output!
However, remember that a midrange lens cost 7 times the cost of a consumer lens and a luxury lens cost 20 times the cost of a consumer lens.
I'm still weighing the risks involved.
Dropping a midrange lens is like losing a cellphone.
Dropping a luxury lens is like losing your arm!
To go ahead or not to go ahead...
that is the Q!
Anybody here using a Canon system and an L lens?
How is it?