Hey all, I think LBA is starting to set in (not good when I'm jobless!
), cause now I can't stop thinking about what I want to get next. Well I do know what I want - a replacement for the kit lens. There are, however, so many choices and I don't know where to start - beginning with whether to get a prime or zoom, though most likely I want a zoom that covers a similar focal length to the kit lens.
Ever since I bought the pentax 100mm f2.8 WR macro, I can hardly use the kit lens without seeing all the shortcomings that come with it - colors are bland, don't contrast very well, etc. And so now I'm looking for a replacement for it. This also comes from the fact that I want to get into street photography a lot more, but I'm not the greatest at it with a 100mm lens - while I'm actually pretty decent at hip-aiming candids, I think after a while people will catch on that I'm not actually checking my pictures or fiddling with the settings
and so I'm looking for something wide.
And I'm thinking zoom cause, probably, in an urban environment, I'd likely find myself changing focal lengths all over the place, and sometimes having a prime, while useful, may be less practical (also say in a party/indoor environment and the like - shoot a pseudo candid with at ~55mm and then zoom out and get the crowd ?)
But I don't know much about street photography, so correct me if I'm horribly wrong and am speaking blasphemy.
Anyways, yeah, I'm looking for a relatively low cost (~$3-400 Canadian), fasterishhh (<f4 constant ?), and good IQ lens. Though the only thing I can think of in this price range is the 16-45mm, and the CA results from review websites (ie, photozone) are quite intimidating.