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Thread: need help?

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    Junior Member ishotabuck's Avatar
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    need help?

    I own the alpha with the 18-70 kit lens. The pictures are great for a lot of applications...but when shooting indoors or action..the lens is just not as great as I expexted? I was spoiled with my manual minolta with lens' that had f-stops in the 1.7 for my 50 mm and a 2.8 for my 70-200.

    Should I trade back my kit lens and step up to some better glass and if so any reccomendations on some used minolta or sigma lens' that I could get that would fit this syatem?

    Any response would be great!!
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    Jus trying to learn this thing called photograpphy!!

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    Re: need help?

    What happened to your 50mm f/1.7?, it works with the Alpha, as well as all the Minolta AF lenses. If you don't have it, you can get used ones on ebay for $80 or $90.
    The beercan 70-210 f/4 (or 75-210) is a very sharp lens, about $180 on ebay.
    I wouldn't trade the kit lens. It's not the best one, but for the $100 or less that costs it's not a bad deal. Just loot at the prices of other 17mm lenses.

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    Re: need help?

    My lenses are all manual...sucks!!
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    Re: need help?

    I've seen converters on ebay, I think that you can use a MD or MC? with them. They were kind of pricy, about $160

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    Re: need help?

    But they won't meter, or autofocus. They 18-70 is a good lens, but you could get a decent set up with a 70-210 F4, and 50 F1.7 together, for about $250.

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