The inevitable fate of each lens is to be glued to a camera and be happy by its side, bringing thousands of photographic stories to the world. I know I have a somewhat cheesy analogy and too “anatomical,” but the truth is that a Target doesn’t get anywhere without its camera and vice versa. The future of photography depends on its ‘combination’.
However, why were they created separately? If a photographer can’t take a photo with the lensless SLR camera, why aren’t these types of cameras made directly with the already standard lens set?That way, we wouldn’t have done it, to pick one, would we?
- If you’ve ever had to buy a lens for your camera.
- Started looking for options and felt overwhelmed by the number of lenses and alternatives.
- And ended up cursing this enlightened inventor who one day came to his Thought inventing cameras and lenses separately.
- Calm down.
- You’re about to figure out why this logic and how thanks to it you can take stunning photographs.
- Virtually “prohibited” for those who don’t have an interchangeable lens camera like yours.
I’m warning you, today’s a long article, so sit down, have your favorite drink and enjoy reading.
A silly question, but let’s confirm it just in case. If you read these lines on a photography blog, it’s because you like to take pictures, right?And no, I didn’t say you like to “look” at photos taken by others, or that you’re a patron. and that you are dedicated to acquiring photographic works made by other photographers. Intello. Je you say AMAS take and produce photography yourself. You like to bring images into the world. You be the artist. Do you like to grab a camera, get lost in the street with her, go home, go to the computer and start discovering those little art jewels you knew how to “hunt”: this portrait of this chubby gangster smoking a cigar while walking hastily?
Grandpa and grandson’s endless wait for a bus that took longer than usual?
Or the girl in the cafeteria you stole this portrait from hiding with your cell phone like the one who doesn’t want the thing?
I’m asking because, if you don’t like any of this, but you still want to be able to take pictures at some point, whether it’s to document events, or for your work, or for any other reason, hey, you don’t like it. You don’t need to buy a camera. Reflex. There are hundreds of much simpler compact cameras on the market with which you can get “right” photos, nothing artistic or otherwise, but what you are looking for is worth it. You have Evil, Bridge or compact cameras among the usual One does not need to enter an SLR of interchangeable lenses.
If you like to take photos, if you are passionate about being able to interfere with people, goals and places and come out with a good handful of photos that excite and tell stories, photographs that go beyond the photograph itself, photographs that penetrate and disrupt, change. conscience, they draw smiles and they cause tears, moving photos, if that’s your thing you probably need an interchangeable SLR lens. I’m telling you why.
We forgot about the lenses that came with the camera in the kit, okay? These are generally very basic, they are the cheapest and the ones that cost the dealer the cheapest. They are included, I would say, almost “free” so you don’t sell yourself a camera with a big hole, almost almost for the aesthetics of the product more than for anything else. The actual game takes place on another level, when you go to the store (or online) and get a “specialized” objective. When you walk out of the store with a good lens under your arm, you can be sure that that lens will last you, if you want it, a lifetime. With the camera body, that would not be true anywhere. Few things I’ve seen change faster than SLR cameras. No matter how meticulous you are when choosing one, no matter how “advanced” and “new generation” you buy, one year, maximum 2, the manufacturer will launch another on the market, many more advanced, and maybe even you will arrive to lower the price over time. Take it easy, it’s a losing battle, there’s not much you can do to fix it except freak out, try to be happy with your camera, and move on.
This frustration, however, will never happen to you with a good goal. Lens technology changes very little, and when it does, it is about more “complementary” things. For example, they now make so-called “silent” lenses, which automatically focus silently, but of course that is only relevant to you if you are using your camera to shoot professional video. They also shoot with stabilizers and things like that, but nobody trades a good lens for that kind of “add-on. ” A good lens is made by the materials it is made of, the crystals it contains, its construction. Once you invest in a great lens you will have it, it will be worth it for this camera and for anyone the manufacturer releases in the future. Unless you decide at some point to switch your camera and switch from, say, Canon to Pentax, in which case Canon lenses probably won’t work for you for the Pentax (sometimes there are adapters you can use, but let’s say not), and Unless the brand itself decides to make a drastic change in the system with which its lenses are mounted, which happens rarely or never, with these two exceptions, your lens will be worth you forever, with this camera now, the only thing you buy in a few years and probably the one you will have in 15 years. Cameras disappear, lenses last.
As I said in the previous section, cameras are worth less over time. At the time, I had bought the Nikon D60 for around 750 Euros (~ $ 750) and I actually considered myself lucky to have found a good deal, and indeed I was. But this model was quickly replaced on the market by the Nikon D3000, which in turn was replaced by the Nikon D3100, which after a year or two was replaced by the Nikon D3200. You follow me well Every year or two, Nikon replaced this model with an improved one, more powerful, with better technology and more functions. Okay. If right now, as of this writing, the Nikon D3400 costs around $ 380 on Amazon, how much do you think my used Nikon D60 could sell for? (This is an example, nobody separates me from this first love). Perhaps it is more profitable for me to appreciate it more and end up selling it in about 20 or 30 years to an antique museum or something like that, because at the moment I don’t think anyone wants to pay more than 150 euros for it. I said I paid 750 euros for it. I do not know if you understand me
I repeat the same thing: calm down, don’t panic, it’s perfectly normal and happens to all cameras and models without exception, the cameras are devalued. There’s no more. On the other hand, a good target never loses its economic value, or at least not as radically as it does with cameras. A good target like the 50mm f/1. 4 will always do the same. If you want to buy it secondhand, it is rare that you find it for a much cheaper price than that of the new store, unless the seller is very desperate or the lens is badly damaged and has bumps and things like that. gave another bad example because those of us who have the 50mm f/1. 4 don’t sell it, ever).
You understand me, the idea is that a good goal is usually worth almost both new and secondhand.
In addition, there are objectives that, over time, have been gaining value, not because they are precisely an ancient object but because they can no longer be manufactured and their value increases by their rarity. Here’s an example, lean and difficult to manufacture. Get 50mm f/1. 2. Yes sir, I repeat, f/1. 2. A transparent lens, with an internal mechanics and an optics difficult to achieve in many lenses, not to mention the immense amount of light you can pick up. Its price at the time, used, is very high (I do not have the exact data but I have seen it announced on more than one occasion) precisely because of the difficulty in achieving it, although it is a goal to focus only “manual”.
What a day, do I have to concentrate by hand ???? Joooooo!
Yes, by hand, old-fashioned, and again, it costs $700 nine, how are you staying?And they draw it randomly;).
This is just one example, but the idea is that once you’ve found a good lens, you can buy it with the peace of mind of knowing that its value, if at some point you want to sell it, won’t devalue it too much. (as long as you take care of him and pamper him yes).
Part of the reason I don’t like compact cameras and non-exchangeable lenses is that you have to work all your photos with the same lens, whether you want to do a daytime portrait, a nightscape, photograph an insect, a river, the petals of a rose, or a motorcycle race, you’ll have to settle for the same optics.
SLR photography, and the ability to change guided by, allow you to adapt the optics of your SLR camera to the time, light, distance, perspective and photo you want to take. The variety of lenses allows them to “specialize” each in a type of photography Is this great news for the photographer who wants to make a portrait in a low light situation and yet get a very bright result?
or for the adventurer who wants to capture a mountain in all its grandeur but cannot go back much more physically due to an obstacle that prevents it.
Fortunately, there is an “adequate” target on the market, specialized for each of these two example situations I have just mentioned. The photographer in each of these two situations could be the same person and use the same SLR camera, simply by changing the lens, can enjoy a lot of sharpness and light with a 50mm f/1. 4 to capture this low-light portrait, or contain the entire size of the mountain with a wide-angle lens with a wide focal length without having to lean back This flexibility is only possible when being able to exchange targets. With a single-lens camera, neither of these two photos would have been possible.
If you’re photographing as a hobby, you’ve probably had moments of some “creative inactivity,” moments when you can’t think of any more things to photograph, you feel unspired, you didn’t know it. where to point the camera or what to photograph. You had nothing to convey. Well, wait, what you didn’t have was a good goal. I personally have experienced it and almost everyone I know with an SLR camera has been told: the moment you access one new target, another, with a very small focal length for example, or with a very generous opening. , a fisheye, a wide angle, a macro, I don’t care, as soon as they put one at your fingertips, a spark lights up in you. Completely change your life (talking photographically). You discover a new type of photography, totally new. New doors open for you, new possibilities. He begins to see a lot of “beautiful photographs” scroll before his eyes that never occurred to him. Each new goal gives you a great boost of creativity that you would never get with a generic goal.
Do you see the benefits of being able to change the lenses of your SLR camera?In the next article, I’ll reveal my favorite selection of “special” lenses. You don’t have to have them all, but I want you to have them have at least one or keep one. Working all the time with the same lens kit as your camera, the accompanying 18-55mm or 18-105mm has nothing to do with the photograph you can get using any of the lenses I’ll present to you in the next article.
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