Help with next lens purchase please

Davey_Pitch · 12-02-2009, 20:34

Note: The below is a cut n paste from my identical thread on TP. Posting it here as I trust you lot and know you won't recommend me rubbish

Finally got enough money together to buy my first additional lens to go with my Canon 450D and the 18-55mm IS kit lens (found an old ISA account that had £180 in, and sold some games). The lens I'm looking at it the 55-250mm IS as it should complement the kit lens nicely giving me a pretty nice focal range. I'm fairly settled on that lens as well, as even though I could save a bit more and maybe get the 70-200mm F4 L, I'm still a newbie at this so splashing out that kind of money on a single lens seems a bit of a waste at the moment.

So, the help I'm after is exactly what I should get as well as the lens. All the equipment I have so far is the 450D, the kit lens, a Lowepro bag, a really old tripod that's a bit too heavy to lug around easily, and a memory card. That's it. I have no filters, no lens hoods, nothing. I've got about £250 in total to spend including the lens (so probably only £50 spare after buying the lens), so looking for any recommendations you wonderful people can give me. If you can also say why I should buy a particular filter, tripod etc, that would be awesome, as my knowledge of filters and tripods could be written on the back of a stamp in very large writing, twice.

So, help me spend my money please. Any and all advice welcome and much appreciated

12-02-2009, 20:34	#1
Davey_Pitch I iz speshul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 6,296	Help with next lens purchase please Note: The below is a cut n paste from my identical thread on TP. Posting it here as I trust you lot and know you won't recommend me rubbish Finally got enough money together to buy my first additional lens to go with my Canon 450D and the 18-55mm IS kit lens (found an old ISA account that had £180 in, and sold some games). The lens I'm looking at it the 55-250mm IS as it should complement the kit lens nicely giving me a pretty nice focal range. I'm fairly settled on that lens as well, as even though I could save a bit more and maybe get the 70-200mm F4 L, I'm still a newbie at this so splashing out that kind of money on a single lens seems a bit of a waste at the moment. So, the help I'm after is exactly what I should get as well as the lens. All the equipment I have so far is the 450D, the kit lens, a Lowepro bag, a really old tripod that's a bit too heavy to lug around easily, and a memory card. That's it. I have no filters, no lens hoods, nothing. I've got about £250 in total to spend including the lens (so probably only £50 spare after buying the lens), so looking for any recommendations you wonderful people can give me. If you can also say why I should buy a particular filter, tripod etc, that would be awesome, as my knowledge of filters and tripods could be written on the back of a stamp in very large writing, twice. So, help me spend my money please. Any and all advice welcome and much appreciated __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.