New Member - Advice on Lenses

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Hi all,
I am new here. I have some.basic photography experience as I studied it at college and some university. I'm looking to actively get back to it and after a lot of research have my eyes set on a Sony A7IV body.
I will be primarily looking to do landscape photography with nature shots of fungi and woodland/forests. I'm interested in low light and long exposure. Also interested in coastal and wave shots.

Can people please give advice on what types of lenses I'll need to look at getting? How many, ideal specs and even some specific model recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Hi Joe, welcome to the forum, enjoy :welcome:

I shoot Fuji so I can't help with Sony gear. But there are some very knowledgeable Sony users here and I am quite sure they will offer sound advice.
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Hi and welcome Joe.

The world is your oyster Joe :D as there is a wide selection of primes including f1.2, f1.4, f1.8 and f2.5/2.8 and variable aperture, f2.8 and f4 zooms.

So, I think the questions are do you want primes or zooms, a one lens do it all or maybe two or three lenses, and what focal lengths interest you? For example one possible combination could be 24-70mm f2.8, 35mm f1.8 and 90mm f2.8 macro?

And then there's the budget. How much are you willing to spend?
 
Hi Joe, And welcome aboard TP, looking forward to hearing from you and maybe seeing some of your images on the various forums. "Enjoy"
 
I think really you need to decide on a shooting and focal length/s style..... Then look into lenses and a budget.

I guess I shoot mainly landscape type sunrise/set scenes, night skies and woodland but I very rarely shoot wide at all and when I do it's a reasonably narrow 24mm :ROFLMAO: Other people's most used is a 16-35mm which isn't for me at all.

It's all a little bit personal initially :)
 
I'd take a slightly different approach since you don't yet appear to know what you want. Tamron make a 28-200 that has a good reputation and isn't tremendously expensive, so I'd give that a try & see what focal lengths you found were most commonly used. You would probably also want the 90mm macro already mentioned.
 
Hi all, thank you for your feedback. Many of your responses opened up plenty more questions I needed to ask myself. I feel they sent me down a necessary rabbit hole and I've been researching all day.
I'll leave it at that for now as I have some deliberating to do. I'll certainly be back on here once I've made some decisions or hit some road blocks.
Thanks
 
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