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It depends on what kind of photographs you're taking and the conditions. If you're going to be taking pictures of people indoors with bad lighting you need a l
by mannyv 3y ago
It depends on what kind of photographs you're taking and the conditions.
If you're going to be taking pictures of people indoors with bad lighting you need a lens with an aperture of 2.8 or less, probably a 1.4.
If you're going to be taking group pictures indoors you'll probably need a wider angle 2.8 lens.
If you're going to be doing indoor sports a 70-200mm 2.8 is probably the minimum.
If you're going to be doing outdoor sports with good lighting a 4.0+ is probably fine.
If you're doing outdoor landscapes you just need a wide lens, like 10-30mm and a tripod.
I'm not a pro by any means, so take this with as much salt as you want.
Any camera that can handle this will do fine. There are tons of cheap full-frame cameras out there now. But lenses generally don't drop in price, even if they're really old - which is quite aggravating.
- mannyv 3y agoOh, the great thing about 1.4 lenses is you don't need a flash - but smaller apertures get weird because the depth of focus gets really short, so you have to learn out how to deal with that. Example: with a 1.4 lens if you focus on the G key on your keyboard the T and B keys will be out of focus. Some 1.4 lenses have back/front focus issues, where you focus on G but the picture is actually focused on T (back focus) or B (front focus). This gets more complicated the further away you are from your subject, since the DoF will be small; you might accidentally focus on someone's nose instead of their chin, etc. OTOH you can take great pictures with a 1.4 in 1 lumen (essentially 1 candle).