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cygnus183: Help with DSLR lenses

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Asked 2 years ago

Get the camera with the 18-55mm kit lense ($70 more than just getting the body), then getting the $250 55-200mm VR lense.

photon
How is lens size factoring into all of this?
seph
start sooner. You can always get more lenses later
kyrandil
You already seem to know a lot; I assume you know the reason to not get zoom leneses? 800$ for a 1x-11x lens might make it worth it, but I'd still be more confident of the accuracy of my lenses with a 18mm, a 35-100mm, and a 200mm.
Mark
It'll get you actually taking pictures *now*, and later it'll be easier to justify the 18-200 (or at least give you more time to find it on sale, etc.)
wdaher
Get better lenses once you've learned to appreciate them (i.e. after you've been doing a lot of photography)

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Wait much longer to save up enough money to get the camera (body only) and the $800 18-200mm VR lense. It'll basicallt the lense that I'll use 90% of the time since it covers the same focal length as the other two combined. Less lense means less dust so I don't have to clean the sensor as much which I'm nervous about. But that $800 is gonna hurt.

jtu
No way you'll get better/less nervous about cleaning the sensor without practice!
ntn
Getting something you actually want later is better than getting something you don't really want now.

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sauergeek
Advantage to the long zoom lens: you will rarely, if ever, have to change lenses. Disadvantage to the long zoom lens: there are a lot of optical compromises in a long zoom than in shorter zooms, and even more compared to fixed focus. I've shot with fixed focus lenses for most of my good photography, so I'd go with a set of fixed lenses. But that's me.

If you make a stupid choice because a website tells you to, it's your own damn fault.