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Understand your DSLR

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sam:
I keep thinking about buying a DSLR but I doubt I could be bothered carrying around all the lenses.

Simon:
I guess you just carry round a basic all rounder, and take the more specialist ones with you on planned photo excursions.  That's probably what I would do, anyway.

Rik:
It's the way I work, Simon. The all rounder is an 18-200 (27-300 equivalent) f3.5-5.6 max aperture with VR (image stabilisation). That will get almost any job done, but it's not a perfect lens. When I'm out with the tripod, I carry the 14-24 (21-36 equiv) f2.8, the 24-70 (36-105 equiv) f2.8, plus a 50 prime (75 equiv) f1.4. The latteris particularly good for candid portraiture in low light. At some point, I'll probably add the 70-200 f2.8, but it's a hack of a price and weight. Even the 14-24 weighs just about 1kg. I don't tend to shoot a lot at the telephoto end, I'm much more a wide angle > medium telephoto photographer, so I might add a w/a prime at some point, and a macro in the 60-70mm range.

Simon:
Any chance of getting out and about with the new camera soon?

Rik:
Sadly, not yet. I bought the damned thing two days before I was taken into hospital and I'm still not strong enough, or steady enough, to use it without a tripod. I'm working on it, though.

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