Lensadviser acquired

28th January 2010

Put the lens first. Make a diligent decision. Your lens has a life span of 10-25 years, yes, years. You dump the electronic part, called camera, within 18month...For your crucial decision some general advice:
- buy fast glass - try, to buy no lens slower than 2.8
- buy glass, that works on 24x36 sized sensors. Keep in mind, that 'Full Frame' cameras will be available under US$ 2000 by 2012. You can shoot a 24x36 (I avoid that FullFrame term that is used,...)Your total expense for an equipment might be even lower with a Full Frame camera like a SONY A850-900, A NIKON D700, a CANON D5, because you can by used quality lenses, raedily available for next to nothing. Of course, industry does not want you to go that route and has invented all kinds of criteria. They make little money on their cameras, because competition is so hard. But they make lots of money on their tupperware lenses they want you to buy!
- get one good Standard-Zoom, eg 24-70mm on 24x36. Don't save here, this lens will be 65% on your camera