RustyB
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Jul 15, 2007, 3:56 PM
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Re: [Bauerjoe] advice for a newbie
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...I think the knock I had read about Nikon in PhotoShop Users was that their lenses weren't very good...you'd have to buy 3rd party lenses. Is that correct?
Joe
I take it there's a bunch of Canon users on that forum? 
I think with lenses, like anything, you get what you pay for. With zooms, you get many lenses in one, which is very practical and cost effective.
With all of my cheap eBay 35mm gear, I can look at my prints and not tell if it was shot with a Mamiya, Olympus, Samigon, Pentax, Phoenix, or whatever brand of prime. But I can usually tell if I used one of the couple of cheap zooms I have. I just don't have an eye for judging lenses or a the patience to argue about lens specs or internet brand fanboy stuff. I'm just an amateur that takes pictures and hopes they look cool when I see them! 
I've had a few zooms now for my Olympus e-500 digital SLR, standard and high quality, but it wasn't until I finally got a prime that I finally got an image that looked like those shot with my 35mm cams.
If I were a wedding photog, you'd obviously want to carry an extra body for backup, so why not just get a couple of good primes to cover most of the day, plus an extra telephoto lens to use during the ceremony? Then just carry both bodies, instead of one sitting in the bag doing nothing. I see wedding photogs carrying two bodies on them sometimes, and assume they're doing something like this. Versus the typical "PJ" that just carries a 20D and one of those big gray lenses, that you see 95% of digital photogs using these days. (Canon 70-200 f2.8?)
I think the first thing you gotta do, is practice as much as possible, which will help you to waste less money. The more you learn, the more you will re-evaluate your needs, and figure out what you really need. Basing your purchases on internet forums, with posts from a huge array of different personal tastes, can clean out your bank account before finding what really suits YOU. I used to have a garage full of Jeep parts. Now I have boxes full of video and still camera junk, and a lot of seller's fees on eBay.
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