Best Lenses For The Price?

[Tlee05]

Best lenses for the price? Also you can include addons with the macro/zoom etc?

Best wide angle lens:
Best fish eye lens:
Best zoom lens:
Best macro lens:
Best Addon:
Best night lens:
Best all round:

[tim]

This is similar to the top ten lenses thing this thread (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=56752), but it doesn't cover those classes of lenses. Possibly the best way to do this would be with a bunch of polls for each lens type, then add it to that sticky. I'll talk to the other mods about it.

[ddelallata]

Have you read this sticky? http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=56752

[tim]

Best wide angle lens: I chose the Tokina 12-24 for value and performance.
Best zoom lens: This doesn't make sense, zooms are too wide ranging.
Best macro lens: All the Canon/Sigma/Tamron macro lenses are meant to be great. Get the cheapest.
Best Addon: Grip.
Best night lens: 50mm F1.4 is a good compromise of price/performance
Best all round: Tamron 28-75 F2.8 gets my vote.

[Tlee05]

Thanks tim, ooh i had the canon 50mm and the tonkina 12-24 in mind, its christmas time so looking to get alot of lenses coming in,

In zoom I mean such as the what has most powerful zoom and sharpness mmm.. say mainly daylight pictures of just people walking,

[Scottes]

Street pics and people pics and such? Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 is a great bet.

[Tlee05]

Yeh so i can get a nice distance from people while shooting, dont want to be in there face shooting random people, or in a zoo where i can zoom right in to the tigers face, mainly just a sharp powerful zoom all round, looking up the Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 right now thanks guys for your input so far,

[Scottes]

Just realize that 75mm isn't that long - it might often be too short for tigers in a zoo, and you'd still be pretty close if you shoot a portrait.

[Jon]

Let's look at these, one by one.
Best wide angle lens: We did discuss this one - there probably is a reason for it, but the camera(s) you use will impose qualifiers even more strongly than in any other category, as "wide" varies radically with the sensor size and there are more lenses that won't work except on APS-C in this range than anywhere else.

Best fish eye lens: There are only about 4-5 readily-available EF- or T-mount fisheyes around; searching for "Fisheye" in the EF Lens forum will quickly bring those up. And anything less than a circular fisheye for the full-frame bodies won't do a whole lot for the APS-C models.

Best zoom lens: As has been noted - for what purpose? The various existing categories do cover the recommended zooms for the various uses, and across the price spectrum.

Best macro lens: They're all good - if price is a concern, then look for what's cheapest. My only advice would be that the EF-S 60 doesn't really offer much more than the various 50 mm macros out there, whuile costing close to what a 100 mm will. Macro's the area where "crop" is least important.

Best Addon: If this is to include only "bolt onto the camera and use all the time", there are only 2 possible entries - a grip and an LCD hood. Beyond that you get into tripods, filters, bags, image tanks, . . . and it gets very nebulous.

Best night lens: Whatever's fastest! And a good tripod.

Best all round: There's no such animal. If it's good for weddings, it'll probably be too short for wildlife.If it's good for sports, it won't be a lot of use for the general landscape photographer who wants somnething wider. Again, the various Top Ten lists by area of interest have this pretty well covered. If a lens shows up on 2 or more of those, it's a safe bet for general use. If you start looking at extended-range zooms (any of the various 18-200 or 28-300 ranges, for instance), you're dealing with weight and lesser image quality, as well as poor speed. Are those tradeoffs that are acceptable for "all-around"? For instance, Canon has a 28-300 IS L, but for about the same money and weight you can get the Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L and the 70-300 DO IS, getting better-quality lenses, a little wider at the wide end, and much faster in the 24-70 mm range.