{"id":1167,"date":"2007-11-12T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2007-11-12T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T14:05:40","slug":"a-thought-on-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"A thought on lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard sometimes to justify the purchase of lenses to people who are not interested in photography. You can buy a perfectly decent camera for a lot less than I just paid for a 77mm f1.9 Pentax <a title=\"High-res demo\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2376\/1981039640_470ee3fa1d_b.jpg\">portrait <\/a>lens. But there will often be a better camera next year. At the present rate of progress you can expect a significantly better camera for the same price every eighteen months or so. I could for example buy a Pentax <span class=\"caps\">K10 <\/span>today for what I paid for my ist1D last summer, and the new camera would have more megapixels (big whoop) but also an anti-shake mechanism, better controls, and a widget for preventing dust from settling on the sensor. For less money I could get the anti-shake and the dust reduction for in a <span class=\"caps\">K110 <\/span>or whatever they are calling it, and still have the lovely light body.<\/p>\n\n<p>On the other hand, the lens I just bought is a design ten years old. There won&#8217;t be anything better on the market in ten years&#8217; time at any price and I doubt it will have got cheaper then either. Almost all my other <span class=\"caps\">SLR <\/span>lenses are second hand and still great. So if you absolutely positively have to <del>spend<\/del> invest money in camera equipment, lenses are the way to go. And this is a glorious lens for low light portraits. See my mother:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seatrout\/1981039640\/\" title=\"PMB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2376\/1981039640_470ee3fa1d.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"500\" alt=\"77mm portraits 003\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard sometimes to justify the purchase of lenses to people who are not interested in photography. You can buy a perfectly decent camera for a lot less than I just paid for a 77mm f1.9 Pentax portrait lens. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}