salmo636
01-21-2006, 09:00 AM
HI all
I just bought myself a canon 350d rebel with its free 18-55 lens.
Hueston we have a problem!! ---help--- the camera sales guys have managed to confuse me bigtime.
My problem - well i bought the camera for general use but i also hope to use it for my job which is graphic design. I want to be able to take close up shots of actual fly fishing flies (ie from a couple of cm) and be able to get great detail etc. Now the camera guys (two different shops) each told me that the above lens would do a great job but now i dont know which to buy because i dont know enough about photography and lenses to understand what the differences are. I had the 50mm on my camera in one shop and it seemed to do exactly what i wanted it to do - but when i went to the next shop the guy said the 105mm would do the same job but better!!!
Also i want to buy a better lense than the one supplied with the camera which i will be able to take more action type shots from a distance (lets say for instance a guy in a boat waving his fly rod about the place) one guy advised me that the sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG Macro would do a good job of action shots as well as the odd bit of macro shooting, is this good advice.
In a nutshell i want two lenses - one to take great close up macro photography and one for taking action shots at a bit of a distance (say furthest the subject would be twenty or thirty meters away roughly)
Thats it - hope some of you guys who now how can help a dumbo like me.
Thanks very much
ps please explain as if i know nothing because fact is i probably dont know much more than that as regards the technicalities of cameras!
regards
declan
I just bought myself a canon 350d rebel with its free 18-55 lens.
Hueston we have a problem!! ---help--- the camera sales guys have managed to confuse me bigtime.
My problem - well i bought the camera for general use but i also hope to use it for my job which is graphic design. I want to be able to take close up shots of actual fly fishing flies (ie from a couple of cm) and be able to get great detail etc. Now the camera guys (two different shops) each told me that the above lens would do a great job but now i dont know which to buy because i dont know enough about photography and lenses to understand what the differences are. I had the 50mm on my camera in one shop and it seemed to do exactly what i wanted it to do - but when i went to the next shop the guy said the 105mm would do the same job but better!!!
Also i want to buy a better lense than the one supplied with the camera which i will be able to take more action type shots from a distance (lets say for instance a guy in a boat waving his fly rod about the place) one guy advised me that the sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG Macro would do a good job of action shots as well as the odd bit of macro shooting, is this good advice.
In a nutshell i want two lenses - one to take great close up macro photography and one for taking action shots at a bit of a distance (say furthest the subject would be twenty or thirty meters away roughly)
Thats it - hope some of you guys who now how can help a dumbo like me.
Thanks very much
ps please explain as if i know nothing because fact is i probably dont know much more than that as regards the technicalities of cameras!
regards
declan