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Help Me Find a New Lens

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50in07
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I found my old Sony video camera in my room and can get around 120 trade in for it so I'm probly gonna buy a new lens. I'm thinking about getting a 50mm right now. The number one thing I would like in this lens is good low light performance. I would be willing to get an old manual focus lens. I don;t know a whole lot about lenses, but right now I'm deciding between the Canon 1.8 or 1.4 but would like other suggestions.
Sep 17 2010 7:07PM
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Ben.
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what lens(es) do you have right now?
Sep 17 2010 7:13PM
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50in07
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I Have Tamron 18-250 f3.5 and the kit lens but I never use it.
I also forgot to mention I film on a t2i.
Sep 17 2010 7:21PM
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canterbury
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can't give you suggestions unless you say what you want you use it for/what kind of shots you want to take, what are you willing to spend?
Sep 17 2010 8:29PM
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50in07
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Sorry I'm mainly gonna be shooting video, since I live in Minnesota most of out skiing comes at night so I want a good lens for shooting video at night and since the 50mm 1.4 is 350ish i'd say thats the max.
Sep 17 2010 11:51PM
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canterbury
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sounds like you've already made up your mind.
Sep 18 2010 3:16AM
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alexat955
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I have the 50mm 1.8 and I love it. Also it's cheap so if money is an issue, get that but otherwise go for the 1.4
Sep 19 2010 7:34PM
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horner
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You should by my tokina 16-50 2.8
Sep 19 2010 8:25PM
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