Hi,
I have never had a tele lens (whether zoom or prime) and would like to try one. I do not really feel the difference between 100mm, 200mm or 300mm, so I think of buying a zoom in that range: 55-300, 100-300 etc to gather experience.
With this lens I plan to shoot everything
- to try various possibilities, see what's needed in various use cases, hit the limits. I treat this more like a learning (and fun
exercise.
I do not want to spend too much: new DA 55-300mm f/4.0-5.8 ED would be perfect but is too expensive for me this time, kit DAL 55-200 has good price but it's too short (I really would like to try 300mm).
I have thought about buying a used lens, so that I can sell it without too much loss once I learned what I want from telezoom and decided to shop knowing my expectations more precisely.
So I have two questions:
- (broader one) what lens would you recommend for trying tele inexpensively?
- (narrower one) as above + a lens that can be sold back ?
I would prefer autofocus lens, but should be fine with MF too. I would like to get at least decent/good IQ (yes, I do realize that there are many definitions of "decent/good". Use yours
I will be grateful for any opinions/suggestions.
Thanks,