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What are the best EF lenses for 80D?

CANON2 — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:32:27 GMT

Hi!

What are the best EF lenses for 80D?

Re: What are the best EF lenses for 80D?

Waddizzle — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 18:17:41 GMT

The best lenses would have to be Canon's "L" series of lenses.

Re: What are the best EF lenses for 80D?

cicopo — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 18:45:57 GMT

You pick lenses to do the types of photography you want to shoot. Telephoto for long distances, wide angles for landscapes & zooms for versatility etc. What are your interests?

Re: What are the best EF lenses for 80D?

ed_vatza — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:25:50 GMT

Definitely tell us what you like to photograph and we'll better be able to suggest a lens or two.

Re: What are the best EF lenses for 80D?

ScottyP — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 21:22:21 GMT

Tell us what you take pictures of and what lenses you already have and we can give better answers.

If you have only the kit lenses that come with a crop camera, you have no large max aperture lenses. Large aperture lenses open up bigger to allow more light in so you can shoot in dim light without having to slow the shutter too much, without having to raise ISO which gives ugly grainy photos. Shooting at large apertures also gives shallow depth of field in focus, which is a nice effect that draws attention to just the thing you focus on (because it is in focus), while blurring distracting backgrounds away.

Prime lenses have large apertures. Primes are non-zooming, fixed focal length lenses. Primes have better image quality than zooms of the same price. Primes are cheaper than zooms of equal image quality. Primes are generally at least somewhat smaller and lighter than zooms.

A 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4 prime is a good walk around lens on a full frame and a good portrait lens on a crop body.

A 35mm prime is a good walk around lens on both full frame and crop cameras.

Re: What are the best EF lenses for 80D?

ebiggs1 — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 13:28:16 GMT

"What are the best EF lenses for 80D?"

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