Which is more important, camera body or lens?

Which is more important, the lens or the body of a SLR camera? Below I have compiled the selection principles and weight comparisons of camera bodies and lenses for everyone. You are welcome to read and refer to it!

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Which is more important, camera lens or camera body?

Standard lens is the best choice for getting started, because it is cheap and has excellent image quality, and can help you quickly build a lens Standard.

The fuselage is basically a black box with a hole at one end and a light-proof seal in other places. There are not many places where it can affect the quality of photos. Of course, in the digital age, the photosensitive part is solidified on the fuselage, which increases the influence of the fuselage a lot, but it is still not as important as the lens. When it comes to photography, those who play with equipment basically play with the camera body, but those who want to play with photos must start with the lens.

Since light shines through the lens onto the photosensitive part to form a photo, slight changes in the lens will also have a decisive impact on the photo. Downgrading the camera body only reduces the convenience of operation and workmanship, while downgrading the lens will directly lead to a reduction in photo quality.

For example, those who buy entry-level cameras and use them for a long time, and those who use deputy director zoom lenses that cost about a thousand yuan, are wasting their stuff, because the things captured by those lenses are not even as good as those of many DC! But on the other hand, if you install a fixed-focus large-aperture lens on an entry-level camera, the price may not increase much, but the quality is guaranteed to be above the standard. Therefore, when we choose a SLR camera, we should first have a general understanding of the lenses of each manufacturer, and use the lens as the decisive factor to consider the final choice.

The number of cameras is small, the positioning is clear, and the grades are relatively far apart. Even the cameras of Canon and Nikon are staggered, deliberately avoiding direct competition between models, so the choice is relatively easy. Lenses are much more complex.

When choosing lenses, you should follow these two principles:

1. If you can afford the original factory, don’t buy the sub-factory, and if you can afford the German, don’t buy the Japanese.

The so-called sub-factory refers to the supporting lenses produced by some lens manufacturers for various body manufacturers. These lenses often look cheap and high-quality, making them the first choice for beginners. But when you use it, you will find again that you get what you pay for, and dissatisfaction with the photos will be passed on to the equipment, so the deputy factory owner often becomes the scapegoat who is not unjustly accused. After struggling, the loss is money and longer exploration time.

Therefore, unless you really can’t afford it, buy the original head. As for the second half of the sentence, it has become an empty talk in the digital age, unless you can accept manual focus. In that case, through the adapter ring, Canon, Sony/Minolta, Pentax and other machines can use Leica and Zeiss manual lenses, and their effects It is better than the original lens, and the price may be cheaper, but it is more troublesome to use.

2. If you can use constant aperture, don’t use variable aperture. If you can use fixed focus, don’t use zoom.

For zoom heads, there is a very simple principle to determine their quality. A constant aperture means that the maximum aperture remains constant while zooming, which is better than the maximum aperture that needs to change while zooming. In addition, constant aperture also often represents a larger aperture. The above basically requires money. If the original lens will be twice as expensive as the accessory lens, then the constant aperture head may also be twice as expensive as the non-constant aperture head. So is there a way to get high quality with less money? The answer is yes, that is a fixed focus head.

The maximum aperture of most zoom heads is 2.8, while for fixed-focus heads with commonly used focal lengths, the aperture is at least 2.8. More importantly, the price of the same 2.8 is much different. For example: the price of Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM is 11,000 yuan, and the EF 24mm f/2.8, EF 35mm f/2, EF 50mm f/1.4 USM, and EF 85mm f/1.8 USM lenses add up to It’s less than ten thousand.

Fixed focus heads may seem inconvenient to use, but to be honest, how many photos do you need to take on daily basis? Price aside, fixed focus heads are small in size, have good image quality, and are suitable for Developing a sense of lens is even more helpful. It can be said that there is no obstacle to switching from a fixed focus lens to a zoom lens, but if you can use a zoom lens, you may not be able to use a fixed focus lens. For beginners, fixed focus is the best choice. You don’t need much at the beginning, just buy one or two lenses, learn and shoot as you go, and then slowly adjust your lens configuration.