mitsugirly
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Ok, so I spent the entire weekend out of the house, away from home DOING something in the nice weather (it was 85+ all weekend).
Went to 2 different parks, 3 different "street" places (my husband and his friends were aggressive street skating) and then on Sunday spent the day at the conservatory park with the butterflies.
I have FALLEN IN LOVE with my zoom 100-300mm lens. It gets the BEST DOF shots ever compared to my prime 18-70mm. I'm just loving it!
However, I spent both days switching back and forth, back and forth between the lens because the zoom is SO ZOOM that I have to be back really far to get any shots anywhere near me or portrait type shots. When I was at the conservatory, it worked great for all the zoom butterfly, fish, flowers and neat items...but of course in order to get pics of my hubby and baby or the entire "rain forest" ect., I'd have to switch lens. I swear I switched lens at least 50+ times each individual day. I was so sick of it.
I'm thinking I need to get just 1 lens with a HUGE range. There was another guy that was at the conservatory that looked like he had one of those MEGA huge lens. I mean this sucker looked BIG! He was right up on the butterflies. I stopped to ask him what lens he had and he replied a 18(?or something like that?) to 270mm lens. I'm thinking...ugh, ok, my lens is a 300mm and it didn't look as big as that. Then I started thinking how nice that would be to not have to change lens back and forth. It's such a pain.
So what kind of lens do I look for? Who makes what and the range? I have a Sony a300 so I know that not only the sony lens will work, but the Minolta Maxxum lens will as well. Can I go with some of the other off brands for my camera? Do you loose quality when you have a lens like this?
Someone guide me in the right direction. I'm so frustrated after this weekend. lol
Went to 2 different parks, 3 different "street" places (my husband and his friends were aggressive street skating) and then on Sunday spent the day at the conservatory park with the butterflies.
I have FALLEN IN LOVE with my zoom 100-300mm lens. It gets the BEST DOF shots ever compared to my prime 18-70mm. I'm just loving it!
However, I spent both days switching back and forth, back and forth between the lens because the zoom is SO ZOOM that I have to be back really far to get any shots anywhere near me or portrait type shots. When I was at the conservatory, it worked great for all the zoom butterfly, fish, flowers and neat items...but of course in order to get pics of my hubby and baby or the entire "rain forest" ect., I'd have to switch lens. I swear I switched lens at least 50+ times each individual day. I was so sick of it.
I'm thinking I need to get just 1 lens with a HUGE range. There was another guy that was at the conservatory that looked like he had one of those MEGA huge lens. I mean this sucker looked BIG! He was right up on the butterflies. I stopped to ask him what lens he had and he replied a 18(?or something like that?) to 270mm lens. I'm thinking...ugh, ok, my lens is a 300mm and it didn't look as big as that. Then I started thinking how nice that would be to not have to change lens back and forth. It's such a pain.
So what kind of lens do I look for? Who makes what and the range? I have a Sony a300 so I know that not only the sony lens will work, but the Minolta Maxxum lens will as well. Can I go with some of the other off brands for my camera? Do you loose quality when you have a lens like this?
Someone guide me in the right direction. I'm so frustrated after this weekend. lol