Tips on How to Choose the Right Lens

Lens addiction is a bad thing for every photographer. Falling in love with every lens and buying or carrying for trip without any plans can lead to waste of time and money. Selecting the proper lenses is also a lonely decision. We get a lot of questions from our readers wondering which lens they should buy for particular type of genre. There are various lenses with so many features that figuring out the right one can seriously be difficult.

- SANCHIT MISHRA

For most photographers their first lens is a kit lens that comes with the camera body. Well, kit lenses aren’t that bad and have the potential to create some fantastic images. There is a reason manufacturers select such kit lenses and that reason is it makes the camera look good and don’t add much cost. But they do lack some features which other lenses have and they definitely come with a cost.

But if you shoot outdoors and stay in between the zoom range, images captured from kit lenses are sometimes only different from the other lenses at extreme magnification or aperture.

But professional photographers don’t plan in the sweet point for the lenses they have in the bag, they always go for tough conditions like variable lighting and in conditions that change fast and which actually give them a challenge to shoot. So when you use your kit lens to the extreme, the next question is now what? And that is why we are here to help you out when you are stuck.

Stick To your Budget

Good quality zoom lenses are versatile and are useful in almost all situations, but the price tag can definitely give a shock. Getting a zoom lens for your camera, whether it’s Canon, Nikon, Sony or any brand is an easy solution if your earnings covers your photography habit. If you can’t afford, then stick to a budget which is easy for you. Going lakhs of rupees in debt for a camera and lenses is financial suicide. Know your budget before you go for any lenses.