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[froggy_dear]

Help me, Livejournal.

I'm going to buy a fancy pants camera, then kind that sells the lens separately. It will be primarily used to photograph stationary objects and public events. What kind of lens should I get? What's "normal"? It must have zoom.

I'm looking at the Nikon D60, but am open to other suggestions as well. It looks like most packages include the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR Lens.

This is for work. I don't get to keep the fancy pants camera.

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[ohsochewy.livejournal.com]

Make sure you tell me what you end up with. now that I'm actually using my camera for school and work, I find it sadly low-tech. (I can't believe I'm saying that.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Hi Lynn, Do you expect to do some macro shooting (close up of small objects on stands, etc.?) One thing to be aware of is that the more you zoom, the longer the minimum focal length. Your eye sees at about 50mm. So, 18-55 sounds good for photographing small objects up close, photographing small rooms and still getting them in the frame, or daily shooting, but for public events you might also want a longer focal length to zoom in on people's faces and blur distracting objects in the background, etc.

Nikons are pretty hard to go wrong, with Canons a popular pick as well (maybe slightly less professional grade optics).

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[(Anonymous)]

Oops, this is Colleen!