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Camera Canon Lens

Canon Lenses: Is It Worth Buying The Brand Name And Not The Cheaper Alternatives?

If you own a newer Canon SLR, you have several choices of lens brands that you can buy for your camera. In addition to buying Canon brand lenses that work with the automatic focus of modern Canon's, you can buy lenses from third party vendors such as Sigma and Tamron, who make Canon-compatible lenses for less cost than Canon. After having spent a large amount of money on the camera body, you may be asking yourself if it is worth spending the extra bucks for the brand name lens as well. I am an amateur photographer, so am certainly no expert, but from the day that I bought my Canon SLR with its brand name lenses you could see a marked jump in improvement in my photo albums. It is like someone focused everything and turned on the lights! I recently switched to a digital Canon and gave my six-year-old film Canon to my mother. Her photos showed the same amazing improvement.

Reasons to Buy the Canon Lens

I generally like to stick to matching brand names with brand names, and my research has shown that most people on the web agree that doing so with Canon lenses is worth it. The first reason for the popularity of this Canon lens is image quality. Canon lenses are well-corrected for distortion, and have excellent color fidelity and contrast. In addition, they are characterized by superior lens construction. Canon lenses are the choice of many imaging professionals the world over, whether those lenses are being used on EOS SLR cameras or on broadcast cameras.

Canon Lens Critics

As with any product, Canon lenses have their critics. For example, I found one person who felt that on the Canon lens the auto focus seemed slower than and not as decisive as the other lenses they had owned, especially in low light.

Canon Lens Facts and Benefits

Lenses are extremely complex and sensitive pieces of equipment in which a myriad of problems can occur. Canon lenses are adjusted through the camera body with no on-lens control. All modern Canon lenses focus with a motor in the lens, which may be one of the main reasons my mother and I got such great photos. If you are near-sighted, this is an especially nice feature since it is difficult to focus manually if you wear glasses.

Used Canon Lenses

Another great reason to invest in the higher priced Canon brand lens is that camera lenses tend to hold their monetary value over time, while camera bodies do not. I have bought both a used Canon lens and a new Canon lens for work and home and, frankly, I could not tell any difference other than the price.

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High quality adjustable canon camera lens?

Ok I'm gonna be getting an Eos 50d and I need a very good adjustable lens. any ideas?
ok well i need a lens that has a very wide range, like 28-135mm or greater. I'm planning to photograph just about everything from people to nature to city. For price range it will depend on the quality and range of the lens. I guess somewhere between 300-600 dollars or so.

If you are buying your first DSLR, it may help to know the 50D is available in a kit that typically includes a high quality zoom lens. The kit lenses offered with the 50D are a step above the basic 18-55mm zoom lenses typically sold with the digital Rebel kits.

The classic zoom lens kit for the 50D includes either the EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM or EF 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 IS USM zoom lens. Between those two lenses, I personally prefer the 17-85mm because it provides a wide-angle to medium telephoto zoom where as the 28-135mm is kind of a "normal" to telephoto zoom that isn't always practical for group shots in close quarters. Neither of these are the "best" lenses Canon makes. For that, you need to plan on potentially pending more for a lens than you paid for the camera.

Sometimes, 50Ds are also sold in a 2-lens kit. The second lens is typically a telephoto zoom that offers greater magnification or "reach" than the kit lens. Most such kits include the EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM telephoto zoom. For the money, this is one of the best telephoto zooms made. In this class of lenses, the next step up is Canon's EF 70-200mm f/4 USM L-series lens.

Beyond a good general purpose zoom and a telephoto zoom as described above, we'd need to know more about what you plan to photograph before recommending other lenses. As noted, Canon makes more than 60 different lenses. There are lenses for almost every conceivable purpose and usually several models of similar type but built for different budgets. The L-series lenses are considered professional grade lenses but not everyone needs to spend the money required to buy such lenses.

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