Newbie Question: About Lens

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PaDaddyof3

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Avid reader of the boards, finally going to buy a T2i, i plan on using the camera for music videos and was wondering what do some of yall reccomend as far as good lenses for the t2i im trying to keep my budget about 400-500 for a good lens for music videos.

Let me know
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with that budget I'd go for either:

* tamron 17-50 f/2.8 (non-VC)

* vintage: leitz elmarit-R 35mm f/2.8 + carl zeiss jena pancolar 50mm f/1.8
 
Nah avoid vintage as a beginner, also music videos i'd imagine a client wanting you to show up with legit stuff, especially if you're unknown/newbie. It's more demanding overall, vintage is something you discover with interest, not something to start out with in your situation.

Just get a nice zoom to start with, get a feel for dsrl... i'm currently using this mid price zoom, bit expensive on amazon though, they retail for eq. 300 in sweden so you should be able to find it around 400 or so in the US i guess. Not for low light work but my first choice walkabout lens at the moment, but again +500 for it is a bit harsch.

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-EF-S-Zo...NRG4/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1298399645&sr=8-7
 
+1 to bates

http://www.amazon.com/Tamron-17-50m...R0SI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298406628&sr=8-1

IMO ^ is a better lens and great for walk around as well. 2.8 so you can do lowlight(you'll definitely want this) and sharp as canon (if not better than the canon 17-55).

In regard to martin's comment, I think you should still grab vintage as well. For one it does give a good look to the video, and it also gives a unique physical look which could play into "you know your camera". I cant tell you how many times I get looks @ my cam (t2i w/ helios 44-2) and people walk up and say "wow.. whats that?" Now I walk around w/ the tamron ALOT recently and its great.

I also taped the t2i logo w/ electrical tape so the camera is all black. That plus battery grip.. and "your legit". When people see the red t2i, their mindset changes into "oh yea my daughter has that cam" or something along those lines. Tape/battery grip/unique lens/confidence, adds "you know what you're doing" and gives more confidence to the client.

Now back to functionality, again I think the tamron can be your first universal lens. You want that flexibility for lowlight, because you will encounter that 1 time where you wish you had a 'faster' lens.


Again, this is one mans opinion. :)
 
I'm with Kastro (there's a sentence that sounds weird to me)...
I'm also not sure why Martin doesn't recommend vintage lenses to start with. My local camera shop recommended it very highly when I first started, and I feel like it was the best advice I was ever given. Also helped force me to understand more about my camera in general, which was awesome.
 
the canon 17-85 is awfully soft for my taste, the tamron 17-50 f/2.8 non-VC is WAY sharper and a lot faster
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/...meraComp=474&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=2&APIComp=2


(edit: the following are very very very personal opinions)

plus: I'd describe this 17-50 as "decent", "good enough" or "just correct"; I didn't start *really* liking the images that came out of my camera until I started playing with my nice vintage lenses (and pay attention to that "nice" thing: many vintage lenses are just rubbish, or have some big flaws that give them great personality but make them unsuitable as a general purpose lens)
 
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