Hello everybody. I’m planning to get my first camera body and lenses but I’m not quite sure on what lensens to get. I think I’ll get a LUMIX DMC-GF1 which I can find for fairly cheap prices so I can spend most of the money for some good lenses.
What lenses would you recommend me buying? Is there some kind of “general lenses” I can use without having to switch them according to situations? I’m very new and confused by all the technical terms and stuff
Nothing new to contribute in terms of focal length, but be very wary of a thing called crop factor. The camera you’re looking at has a 2x crop factor.
Most of the lens focal lengths in this thread are popular full frame (1x crop factor) options (like 35mm, 55mm, etc). You also got some APS-C recommendations (the 18-55), and one or two micro four thirds recommendations.
If you were to buy a 50mm, for example, you probably won’t get what the recommender intended. You would need a 25mm lens to get a similar level of magnification.
Unfortunately, it’s going to be hard for you to dig through the recommendations here and guess what sensor format the recommender made it for.