Hi, I want to buy Canon 90D for me and my wife. Which entry level Prime lense you can advise me to buy for everyday photography, family, people, people in nature and so on? Thanks in advance
Welcome to the forums Mehmed, there are plenty of options for prime and zoom lenses. If your looking for primes without buying a expensive L lens I totally understand, good news is the prime lenses are usually pretty good and worth the purchase. The 35mm f2, the 50mm 1.4 and the 85mm 1.8 are all very popular choices for canon primes. I have the 50mm and the 85 and can recommend them, I have not felt the need to upgrade them to the L lenses. I purchased the $100 50mm 1.8 or nifty fifty, honestly I wish I would have just put that cash towards the 1.4 i purchased. Is it worth $100? Yes, it performs decent until its approaching wide open, and being able to shoot at f1.8 as a portrait lens is a main use I have for it. There are also other good options with an 14mm wide angle, 24mm tilt shift, etc... however I opted for the 17-40 instead of having multiple wide angle primes, I personally don't shoot many off brand lenses, but I have a manual focus rokinon 14mm fisheye, which s a really nice performer for the price. Great news is buying a straight EF mount you can use it with much any body, be it full frame or mirror-less. I know we have a number of mirror-less fans here and people that adapt all sorts of lenses and brands, so I expect to see a bunch of other options tossed out as well.
Thank you a lot. This will be really helpful for us. Was wondering if any of lenses is bad for 90D cause of Crop factor, but as I can see almost all of them can be used for various purposes. Maybe will go 24 or 35 mm for begining. ☺
Hello and welcome to the forum. Just for starters, I would look at a 50mm or 35mm lens. Just remember that it is not only Canon that produce lenses. There are third party manufactures as well. Also, look at the used market, you can save a bundle of money that way. What you want to buy sort of depends on you. With a 50mm as an example, you can can buy a Canon 50mm f1.8, it is small, affordable, light, and easy to find used. You could also look at the Sigma 50mm f1.4 art lens. Large, heavy, but it will produce a cleaner image. Plus, something else to think of. If you move away from aps-c and go to a full frame body in the future, buy lenses that will fit and work on the larger format. If you want to get a little geeky, have a look at the Optical Limits, and Lenstip websites for testing of lenses. Reporting for duty, sir. Also, have you thought about going mirrorless? Smaller and lighter than a dslr. Whatever lens choice you make, it will not be your last one. Keep us informed to your choice. Yell out if you have more questions. Gary
Welcome Mehmed, when you purchase your camera, quite often they will come with a kit lens. possibly about 24 to 80 mm, these are good al-round lenses for general photography and then there are more specific lenses which you buy such as 50mm f1.8 and 35mm F2.8 for street, portrait and general use. Advantage the 50m is the 1.8 aperture as it allows more light in low light situations, 28mm F2.8 for landscape photography , etc. All the best with it and more questions there is always someone here to offer advice,
there are alot of you tube vids like this, i picked this one because it mentions the perspective distortion too. don't forget to add the 1.6x to the focal for crop cameras i find 50mm+ on the crop sensor cameras look best for close up portraits of people, wider angle lenses run the risk of distortion close up i have the canon M50 so its a crop too. my usual recommendation to newbies is the 18-150mm because that is a nice range for them learn on and gives them many options to test out a focal before getting a prime.
