[ATTENTION PHOTOGRAPHERS] How To Get High Quality Portraits With A Very Low Cost
Let’s face it – photography isn’t exactly the cheapest hobby or occupation. High quality DSLR’s cost more than you want to think about, and when you’re looking to add a new lens to your collection the prices can make you pretty uncomfortable. However, there are options for those of us who are working on a smaller budget.
It’s shame how some photographers tend to think high price guarantees high quality – and vice versa; if a lens is inexpensive it must be a bad one. This is definitely not the case with these three examples, and probably many more.
Before your next lens purchase I highly recommend you have a look at some of these, compare the image quality – and most of all, determine what it is that you absolutely need for your photography.
There are several great 50mm – 35mm film lenses which with an inexpensive adapter, become 75MM on APS digital cameras( mirrorless and dslr) which have much better optical quality(resolution, DOF, color, etc.) than newer dslr portrait lenses. Both the Nikon and Canon 50mm f1.2 are legendary, used as the primary lens by many professionals through the turn of the millennium. As I had Contax film camera gear I used the Zeiss 50mm f1.4. I now have a Sony mirrorless and still use the indestructible Zeiss with a regular adapter which turns it into a 75mm + uses the sharpest inner 75% of the glass(highest resolution) and also invested in a Metabones speed adapter which keeps it a 50mm but boosts the f/stop to 1.2. Both ways produce incredible results unmatched by any modern lenses. Caveat is you have to manually focus, which purist photographers prefer anyway.
There are several great 50mm – 35mm film lenses which with an inexpensive adapter, become 75MM on APS digital cameras( mirrorless and dslr) which have much better optical quality(resolution, DOF, color, etc.) than newer dslr portrait lenses. Both the Nikon and Canon 50mm f1.2 are legendary, used as the primary lens by many professionals through the turn of the millennium. As I had Contax film camera gear I used the Zeiss 50mm f1.4. I now have a Sony mirrorless and still use the indestructible Zeiss with a regular adapter which turns it into a 75mm + uses the sharpest inner 75% of the glass(highest resolution) and also invested in a Metabones speed adapter which keeps it a 50mm but boosts the f/stop to 1.2. Both ways produce incredible results unmatched by any modern lenses. Caveat is you have to manually focus, which purist photographers prefer anyway.