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Best lens for T4i for shooting at night with bright lights?

sambo613
Apprentice

I am looking for a lens for my Canon Rebel T4i. I am a news photographer and I shoot fire, police, and ambulance scenes at night where there are flashing lights like this: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3857/15157183675_9500a2f415_b.jpg. My current lens is coming out blurry at times and overall quality is not good. I'm willing to spend a few hundred dollars on it, but nothing really expensive. 

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Tim
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Hello sambo613,

The lens that you would want would be one with a larger aperture that will allow more light into the camera.  One of the more budget friendly lenses that you might want to look into would be the EF 85mm f/1.8 USM or the EF 50mm f/1.4 USM.  Either of these will feature a larger aperture value than what comes with the stock kit lens. 

EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

 

EF 50mm f/1.4 USM 

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ebiggs1
Legend
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Also besides buying a faster lens, you need to use a higher ISO number.  That photo you refferenced is shot at a high ISO. Even though the EXIF was deleted, you can see some prominent grainyness.

 

BTW, go with the EF 50mm f1.4

EB
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