Recommended Canon 450D Lenses?

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Hi everyone

Still learning about different Lenses etc and just wondered if anyone could tell me which ones they recommend for different situations?

So far i only have the 18-55mm
and an 80-200mm (I dont feel very happy with this one) When i try to capture birds the picture still seems fuzzy when cropped in) but then that may be just me :(

I am trying so hard to improve any reply's will be greatly appreciated

Thanks Carrie :)

Photography....last thing on my mind at night...first thing on my mind in the morning :love:
 
Portrait - Canon 50mm f1.8 :) - amazing lens!
For a bit of zoom :D ..and cheap(er) than an L - Canon 70-300mm IS USM
Sport will need a nice fast (low f number ideally) so something like a 70-200f2.8..but we're talking big bucks there.

Anyway..the one to start off with is the 50mm I'd say, its cheap and a very versatile lens!
Cheers. Paul
 
I have the 18-55 & 55-250 kit lenses, both are good starter lenses but at the long end of the 55-250 quality does drop off a fair bit.
I also have the 50mm 1.8 which is excellent and cheap. For landscapes I use the sigma 10-20 which I really rate too.
 
by the 80-200, do you mean the ancient canon ef 80-200 f4.5-5.6?

if so that's a pretty basic lens.

similar range, much, much better performance is the 70-200 f4

i have a 70-200 f2.8 which i use as a "general lens". love it. great lens, excellent quality, on my camera most of the time but even a 200mm lens on a crop will be short for birds. you'll need a lens which is a fair bit longer if your serious about it.

for portraits, the good old nifty fifty is a good buy (ef 50 1.8) - just £80-90 and a better lens than your 18-55 at 50mm.

a good all-rounder for a crop camera is the 17-55 f2.8 (about the same as a 24-70 on full frame camera). this is a good walk around length, good for indoors and fitting in buildings etc and a good lens for portraits too.

another lens for portraits which is fairly inexpensive is the canon 85mm 1.8, this is a bit longer than the 50mm, so not quite as great for indoors but optically a better performer. it's also got faster autofocus than the nifty.

some people like the sigma 30mm 1.4 as a general walkaround lens, i have no experience of this, but many people will tell you it's a great lens.
 
mumof3 said:
Hi everyone

Still learning about different Lenses etc and just wondered if anyone could tell me which ones they recommend for different situations?

So far i only have the 18-55mm
and an 80-200mm (I dont feel very happy with this one) When i try to capture birds the picture still seems fuzzy when cropped in) but then that may be just me :(

I am trying so hard to improve any reply's will be greatly appreciated

Thanks Carrie :)

Photography....last thing on my mind at night...first thing on my mind in the morning :love:
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It will! Don't crop. It's death to image quality. You've got a DSLR because it has a big sensor, so use every square mm of it.
 
mumof3 said:
Hi thanks but it wont let me on to that page :(

I suppose as i am still learning not a lens that is to highly priced, maybe up to £200 for now.Have been looking on ebay,some are quite reasonable :)
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Classified access will come in good time.

The 80-200mm that you currently have is no more than an okay lens. With your budget in mind I'd be inclined to go for the 55-250mm IS as it's a cracking lens for the money.

When buying on ebay you need to be careful especially with non Canon brand lenses as some of them won't work on your camera despite having the correct EF fitting.

You should be able to sell your 80-200mm on ebay for about £50 with a good description and plenty of pics.
 
dentedshed said:
Same as yours but I stand by what I said.

Are you saying that you don't crop pictures at all?
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I said cropping destroys image quality, you said that was utter nonsense. It does. And cropping does not magically turn a picture from mediocre to brilliant. How can it when you're throwing away tons of everything? That is utter nonsense. Fill the frame - it's the first rule.

And no, I don't crop images unless I can possibly avoid it. It is no substitute for using the right lens and framing the subject properly in the first place. But I have a 5D2 with more than twice the image area compared to a crop format DSLR, so I can get a way with a lot more, though I still hate doing it - I know what I'm losing.

What's the point of having all that frame area if you're not going to use it? That's what DSLRs are about. Might as well get a mega-zoom compact in the first place.
 
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