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Lenses for a newbie (feddit.it)
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Hello everybody. I'm planning to get my first camera body and lenses but I'm not quite sure on what lensens to get. I think I'll get a LUMIX DMC-GF1 which I can find for fairly cheap prices so I can spend most of the money for some good lenses.

What lenses would you recommend me buying? Is there some kind of "general lenses" I can use without having to switch them according to situations? I'm very new and confused by all the technical terms and stuff

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I've got some micro 4/3 cameras (the kind that the one you're looking at is) and entirely too many lens so I guess this is my ballpark

Am I an expert? Hell no

Do I have a couple years of hobby experience? Yes.

So let's get started

My favorite general purpose lens is my Panasonic Leica 12mm to 60mm lens. It goes down to f/2.8 and has a wide spread of focal lengths to use that work great. It's expensive though. The Panasonic (non-Leica) 12-60 is a pretty decent alternative for a lot cheaper. Usually about half the cost or less of the Leica one.

My favorite non-zoom powered lens native to micro 4/3 is the 25mm f/1.7 lens from Panasonic as well. It's bloody sharp and a great general purpose lens if you don't mind having to change your distance to a subject.

Now in terms of manual lenses I have a pair of favorites, one that's expensive and easy to get and the other that's old and hard to find. The expensive one (like $400 USD) is my 7.5mm f/2.0 lens from laowa. It's a really specific use case lens but it's damn good at what it does, which for me is wide astrophotography shots. The hard to find one is an old Soviet projector lens made for 16mm film. It's a 50mm f/1.2 lens. It's fantastic and takes some really unique shots. I paid like $90 USD for it.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask, I'll happily answer.