It seems to me that camera kit lens take and make a lot of bad press.
Which I think is a real shame as it’s very easy to say what something is Not. The kit lens is the starting point. We might need longer or wider, faster or weather proof. But who really knows?
That’s the whole point that seems to get missed, until you know what you are doing and the style of photography works best for you, how does any one know which lens would suit them best?
Both Colin and myself have or have had a Nikon 18-70mm kit lens and have taken 1000’s of photo’s with this lens between us.
Once you know how to get the best from your lens, you may never need another. That is not what the camera industry wants you to do!
Advertisments are there to make you want something more than you already have, it’s their job to. Don’t be taken in by them.
Now via a computer program you can make a wide image by putting photo’s side by side making an image that has a wide view as the finale result.
With the now large amount of pixels in most camera body’s you can crop in for close up detail image, or a style of telephoto. You can sharpen a picture that is “a little off” (a C quote for you.)
If you never do more than putting your pictures on the internet or making an A4 print will you ever need any thing more?
You can spend £1000’s on better glass, which if you have it then fine. Enjoy them, but not knowing how to make the most of that ” Must have lens” is a real shame and not money well spent. The new lens by itself will not make you a great photographer either, nor a new camera body with more pixels for that matter.
GCM have made and displayed images made with a sub £100 phone and its camera lens, compact camera’s, Bridge camera, DSLR, and a pinhole 120 film camera.
I put some images out to some friends taken with an old Nikon EM film camera body and the cheapest 50mm Nikon lens ever made. With a scanned negative made into a digital file. Then made an image with that file and posted over the internet to a group of friends. Nobody could tell that they were from film, in fact when told the answer that came back to me was “you would never have known”
So don’t knock the kit you have, learn how to use it.
We are here to help you make the best of your investment, so if you want or need some help, send us an email and book out some time with us.
Spend your money on time and learning new skills. Before you buy “That must have lens”
Illustrated below are the most likely ‘standard’ zoom lenses found on Nikon DSLR bodies.
Nikon 18-70mm Nikon 18-105mm Nikon 18-135mm
f3.5-f4.5 to f22-32 f3.5-f5.6 to f22-38 f3.5-f5.6 to f22-38
67mm filter ring 67mm filter ring 67mm filter ring
15 elements in 13 groups 15 elements in 11 groups 15 elements in 13 groups
390 g 420g 383g
Metal lens mount Plastic lens mount Plastic lens mount
