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Doing protraits I just bought the Canon Digital Rebel with the EF-S 18-55mm lens. Anyway, I'm looking to do some human portrait shots and I know that a lot of people recomment doing it at 80mm and the EF-S lens is equilvalent to a standard 28-80mm lens, it should be enough...but it's not. I'm a little low on cash and always believed in getting the most out of my money and narrowed it down to: *Quantaray - 28-200MM F3.8-5.6 Lens for Canon AF While the 28-200mm lens would render my existing lens useless and would give me less of a range to work with when doing other types of photography, it does have a wider aperature range, something I'm fairly interested in since most people recommend getting a f/2.8 lens. Does anyone have any opinion about the two lens? Or any other lens I should be looking at?
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Derek Holyhead |
Hi Thomas, Remember that the 28-200mm lens will be the equivalent to 44-320mm on a 35mm SLR and the 70-300mm will be 112-480mm. Therefore your existing lens is still required for wide angle (28mm) stuff. This is the 1 real advantage of the Digital Rebel having the 18-55mm lens as it becomes very expensive to do wide angle stuff with other digital SLR's, except the Canon EOS 1Ds which doesn't have any conversion factor but costs $7000+ ! If you search Google you will find that most people don't recommend Quantary lens,apparently poor quality. Look on ebay or your local photographer's shops and see if you can get a used Canon lens. Just an idea. Regards, Del
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