I am planning to buy a telephoto lens for my camera. From time to time, I want to take pictures of the various critters Emmy chases in the back yard, and that would be a whole lot easier if I didn’t need to get so close to them. And, of course, I strongly suspect there will be outdoor sports in SteelyKid’s future, which will demand some zooming for action shots.<\/p>\n
My camera is a Canon Rebel XSi, their entry-level DSLR model. Back when I bought it, I flagged this telephoto lens<\/a> based on a recommendation in some “DSLR essentials” article or another. It still seems like a reasonable choice, but I thought I would throw it out here, because I’m sure I have readers who will have opinions on the subject.<\/p>\n Important caveats:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n — I am not<\/em> interested in changing the camera body. The Rebel XSi works very well for my purposes, so I am not interested in upgrading to the next level of whatever.<\/p>\n — As I am not interested in changing the entire camera, I’d like something that is fairly directly compatible with the Canon system. If there’s some third-party lens that’s amazingly cheap and easy to use, I’ll consider it, but I don’t want anything that’s going to be a major hassle.<\/p>\n — If there is some other type of lens that I really must<\/em> have but I don’t realize it yet, feel free to make a case for it in the comments (I can hardly stop you), subject to the prior constraints about not being interested in buying an entirely different camera.<\/p>\n I hope that’s enough to head off comments starting out “The Canon is a piece of crap, and you really need to ditch it and get a Nikon…” or whatever. Probably not, the Internet being what it is, but I have to try…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am planning to buy a telephoto lens for my camera. From time to time, I want to take pictures of the various critters Emmy chases in the back yard, and that would be a whole lot easier if I didn’t need to get so close to them. And, of course, I strongly suspect there… Continue reading Camera Lens Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}