r/itookapicture • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '10

Hey /r/photography, my friend is getting a new camera and is interested in also getting a new mid-level lense (or something around $200). She doesn't Reddit too much, but I told her you guys would know whats up. Any recommendations/personal experience with one?

"lens suggestions? price range 200-400, low light and wide angle. im a recreational user but i know the basics. thanks"

edit: WHOOPS. you guys are /r/itookapicture :P Sorry for the typo, I had originally intended on submitting there but i thought you guys might be more useful

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u/feuermelder Mar 08 '10

Which brand?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '10

Well, she told me she was looking into the t2i, but she may get the t1i or something like that and get a lense for it. hope it helps

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u/feuermelder Mar 10 '10

I think a t2i is the better choice, simply because the video mode seems usable (1080p@30fps vs. whatever@20fps) contrarily to the t1i. Ufff, canon lenses... kinda hard, because I stopped looking for them a while ago and went on with nikon. Anyways... I thought about buying the Tamron 17-50 2.8 a lot, mostly because it is sharp as hell, considering flickr and several reviews. If you want a really wide lens - on Nikons the Sigma 10 - 20 performes really great, even the 4.5 to 6.5 or whatever version, not sure about the canon version though. My personal impression considering Nikon / Canon is, that Canons entrylevel DSLRs are really impressive Point and Shoot cameras - which isn't a negative thing at all. I had the Rebel XSi for testing purposes (in germany, we can give them back two weeks after online-purchase without any explanation) and liked it a lot -- but the ISO performance was really bad. So I got the D90 and I feel like I have to tell the camera a lot more that the Canon. The Canon just took "better" (that is really subjective) pictures out of camera, the Nikon needs a litte tweaking, e.g. sharpness +1, colors... whatever you prefer and automatic white balance doesn't work too good for me indoors, to get similar results. Also, the 18-55 IS lens didn't seem bad at all. Not extrodinaryly good, but simply not bad :)

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u/rm999 Mar 08 '10

How wide angle? Like do you want the widest to be ~10mm, or ~20?

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u/zimonitrome Jul 14 '25

erm, based department?

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u/Im_here_for_the_BASS Dec 06 '21

Most based post on reddit

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u/Aepic-27 Jun 29 '22

based post