The Missing Lens
Every professional photographer carries around what they call “the Trinity”.
- 14–24mm
- - 24–70mm
- - 70–200mm
That’s what I’ve been able to gather from reading tons of articles anyway. It sounds reasonable though. With a wide enough aperture -f2.8- those lenses should suffice most of the situations presented to any photographer..
So when I bought my gear I thought of this Trinity and purchased;
-16–50mm f3.5
-50mm f1.8
-50–210mm f3.5
I love these lenses. They’re sharper than any Canon lens my friend had on his 60D. But already I’m starting to see their limits. Granted these lenses are not the best out there, but for what they cost, it’s a great value.
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Going into the SONY world, I knew lens selection was gonna be minimal. But I figured that they had the basic starter ones so I’d be fine.
Oh Boy!!!
On the Canon my friend lent me his 50–250mm and 75–300mm. At it’s full zoom that’s gives you an approximate zoom of 400mm(250x1.6) and 480mm(300x1.6) respectively on a crop sensor. Those focal lengths are fantastic for getting a beautiful bokeh.
bokeh is the blurry background in a pic
I discovered this trick to get bokeh by accident the last time I borrowed the Canon and that’s all I shot. I experimented with everything I could until it was time to give the camera back.
I figured that I could get similar bokeh with the SONY. After all 210mm is fairly close to 250mm.
Turns out I can’t. I just can’t get bokeh as intense as I did with those lenses on the Canon. And what’s worse is that SONY doesn’t offer anything over 210mm. So I have to get a lens from a different manufacture.
I have no problems buying from other manufacturer, except I have no clue which manufacture to look for. I have no idea which lense is good. And the Internet is full of good and bad reviews for every lens.
My other option -and its probably what I will do until I feel confident that I’m I’m buying a good lens- is to get a converter and tell my friend to lend me his 70–300mm lens. He doesn’t use it because the lens is not really sharp and has no Image Stabilization. Which you can tell if you crop or zoom in on the image.
Now to spend hours on forums trying to find a good converter. I’m sure thats another rabbit whole I’m getting into.
