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<blockquote data-quote="panthers65" data-source="post: 214966" data-attributes="member: 17640">Definitely not meddling/pushing. I've been very clear I know nothing about cameras in general, much less about the way the zooms/lens work and what-not. I just really started watching them about 2 weeks ago and actually learning about the maybe a week to a week and a half ago. I've been to target and picked them up, and it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to turn them on and get out of all the menu stuff so I could actually look through them.... lolTruthfully, I thought the 50mm was related to the width or aspect ratio, not the magnification. I had gotten that recommendation from our wedding photographer who I became friends with after. He said the 50mm 1.8 and the Tamrom 18-270 were his two favorite lenses. Stupid me didn't ask him to explain why or what that meant, I just started writing down numbers and plugging them into google... I picked the 50mm 1.8 because I thought it would be a more simple lens to start with since it wasn't a zoom lens (and probably subconsciously because I'm a cheap-skate and it was the cheaper of the two). Thanks for clearing that up. I don't know about dropping $4-500 on the 18-270 right off the bat, I'll look more into the 18-105 for starters and let her upgrade as she needs it....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="panthers65, post: 214966, member: 17640"] Definitely not meddling/pushing. I've been very clear I know nothing about cameras in general, much less about the way the zooms/lens work and what-not. I just really started watching them about 2 weeks ago and actually learning about the maybe a week to a week and a half ago. I've been to target and picked them up, and it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to turn them on and get out of all the menu stuff so I could actually look through them.... lol Truthfully, I thought the 50mm was related to the width or aspect ratio, not the magnification. I had gotten that recommendation from our wedding photographer who I became friends with after. He said the 50mm 1.8 and the Tamrom 18-270 were his two favorite lenses. Stupid me didn't ask him to explain why or what that meant, I just started writing down numbers and plugging them into google... I picked the 50mm 1.8 because I thought it would be a more simple lens to start with since it wasn't a zoom lens (and probably subconsciously because I'm a cheap-skate and it was the cheaper of the two). Thanks for clearing that up. I don't know about dropping $4-500 on the 18-270 right off the bat, I'll look more into the 18-105 for starters and let her upgrade as she needs it.... [/QUOTE]

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