It’s cheap and it takes great photos. I tell friends all the time who want to get into photography on a dime to get a decent camera body only and pick up this lens to start

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In prime lenses , Sigma and Tamron make better quality offerings which are of extremely good optical performance–their macro lenses specifically, are excellent optical performers. Derrel is offline …

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Open up the aperture of the lens to its maximum value (on prime lenses it can be as large as f/1.2, while on zoom lenses it is typically between f/3.5 and f/5.6), which will make the depth of field very shallow, shoot at an angle and …

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Texture Photography

Open up the aperture of the lens to its maximum value (on prime lenses it can be as large as f/1.2, while on zoom lenses it is typically between f/3.5 and f/5.6), which will make the depth of field very shallow, shoot at an angle and …

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