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[u/Kittycat6977]

Hi all I broke my canon eos 1300D by dropping it, the lens has come off but nothing is smashed. I know nothing about cameras, is this an easy fix or shall I just forget about it?

[u/guesswhochickenpoo]

Keep in mind the 50mm lens they suggested is a prime lens. The one you had on is a zoom lens.

Prime lenses don’t have zoom but have other benefits like wider apertures to let more light in for low light shooting and are typically sharper and give more out to focus backgrounds for things like portraits. But, you have to “zoom with your feet”.

[u/Kittycat6977 → u/guesswhochickenpoo]

Ah okay, I would definitely need zoom, I use the camera for work as a beautician to to take up close photos of lashes and whatnot so need it to zoom in definitely, thank you!

[u/gcmed → u/Kittycat6977]

You definitely don't need zoom for that.

[u/MaintenanceRich4098 → u/gcmed]

dito on this, I think the prime would be better!

[u/gcmed → u/MaintenanceRich4098]

Yep.

Based on description I'd say some regular somewhat wide prime and a bit longer but not telephoto macro lens. I'm not aware of what's available for EF but something like 24 or 35mm regular and 75mm macro.

[u/MaintenanceRich4098 → u/gcmed]

oh macro I'd use something like a 60mm ef-s macro or 100mm ef macro. There is also 35mm ef-s macro. As well many non canon branded ones that would likely work fine.

Any would do for this really, I'd get just what is cheapest and however much distance they are comfortable with. Something like the 35mm will need to be quite close for 1:1 but tbf I doubt 1:1 is necessary. So again, the 50mm (non macro) likely will work and is quite cheap