I have a Canon Rebel T5 and want to take night sky photos. My kit lens is efs 18-55 does not give me a crisp picture. Will this lens work for me?
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it depends on what f-stop your lens goes down to, the lower the number the "faster" or better the lens will take in light in dark situations such as night photos. Also recommend shooting solely from a tripod using a remote or wireless trigger, that might be your "crisp picture" issue.
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That depends. It will fit your camera, and it is probably sharper than the kit lens, but this is also a very slow lens, and may not be the best suited for night photography.Also, I have had problems with bad internal reflections of small light sources in the picture, which basically ruins many of my nighttime pictures. This problem is covered in my Amazon review of this lens.
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I use this lens primarily for architectural photos. But I imagine it would be ok. It's not the fastest lens in its class, so if stopping action in low light is an issue, you may want to consider that.
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My answer to this is to set the lens at F8 either with Aperture Priority or Manual Mode. Having the lens wide open at F 4.5 just doesn't give the best results IMO. The results of learning this lesson is in the early results of seeing soft images at the edges of the pictures and loss of sharpness. F8 makes all the difference with this lens at least for me.
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No. the 10-18 is a slower lens. you should use a tripod in order to take night sky photos (a tripod and a remote or timer - so there will be minimal camera movement during the photo).The 10-18 will allow a wider image - but will also require a longer exposure.
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Night sky pictures can be tricky. You need a tripod to avoid camera shake because of the long exposure. Even pressing the shutter button will create enough shake to cause blurry results. I usually use the shutter delay to assure that the camera is very steady after I have pressed the button. Next you'll need to have the correct camera settings. If you haven't learned manual mode you'll need to learn that. First thing is, you'll want to set your lens for manual focus. Focus all the way out to infinity. The ideal settings for night sky and milky way shots is having a wide open aperture (the f/#). Forr your 18-55 that will be f/3.5. This allows the maximum light to enter your lens. Next you'll want to set your ISO. You'll want to go as high as you can without degrading the image with high ISO noise. With the t5 I would go any higher than 1600. Next you want to set your shutter speed. I shoot my milky way pictures at 30 sec exposures. If you keep your shutter open any longer than that, you'll start to get star trails. And shorter than that and you're losing potentiolal light. Next you want to zoom out as wide as you can go. The most important thing is the f/# the lower the better. Besides that, it will be a combination of ISO and shutter speed. I used the 10-18 f.4.5-5.6 lens and wasn't pleased with my results because the aperture doesn't open wider than f/4.5 the only advantage youd have with this lens is that you can zoom out to 10mm which is fun. I ended up returning my 10-18 lens and saved a little more money to get a lightly used Tokina 11-16 f/2.8. I'm blown away at the clarity of this lens. And the f/2.8 aperture let's in 2x as much light. I hope all of this helps you. Once you get that first successful night shot, you'll be addicted. Good luck
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Yes, most definitely. And I was skeptical about the quality of this lens. I was absolutely amazed! I received the lens the day before the full moon in August, known as the 'SuperMoon'. I compared pix from my 300 mm Canon 'L' lens with this lens and it blew the 'L' away. Could see the mountains on the edges if the pix. It takes some care and you loose all the automatic functions and no ability to adjust the apature. I tried a bunch of exposure settings and now know about what I need. I would highly recommend this lens but be aware there are lots of compromises. For example I used the delay shutter function as I was getting too much 'shake' by just pressing the trigger. Good Luck!!!!
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All of your standard Canon lenses should work on the T5i. I have several lenses that I've purchased over the past 6 - 8 years and they all work with the T5i.
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You might want to look at the Canon 28-135mm lens. I shoot with a 350 D Rebel too, and was unhappy with 18-55mm lens that came with the camera. So after about 2 months of evaluating MANY lenses, I bought the 28-135mm and have NEVER looked back. I've had mine for nearly 6 months and it's a dynamic walk-around lens. It's decent macro to wide zoom and has proven to be fast enough to shoot at dusk and in the night to get full moon and fireworks shots. I am a fiend for shooting traffic late at night, this lens is GREAT for that as well. It's worth a 1st, 2nd and, 3rd look if you are in the market for great moderate priced lenses. You might want to look at the Canon 28-135mm lens. I shoot with a 350 D Rebel too, and was unhappy with 18-55mm lens that came with the camera. So after about 2 months of evaluating MANY lenses, I bought the 28-135mm and have NEVER looked back. I've had mine for nearly 6 months and it's a dynamic walk-around lens. It's decent macro to wide zoom and has proven to be fast enough to shoot at dusk and in the night to get full moon and fireworks shots. I am a fiend for shooting traffic late at night, this lens is GREAT for that as well. It's worth a 1st, 2nd and, 3rd look... » Read More You might want to look at the Canon 28-135mm lens. I shoot with a 350 D Rebel too, and was unhappy with 18-55mm lens that came with the camera. So after about 2 months of evaluating MANY lenses, I bought the 28-135mm and have NEVER looked back. I've had mine for nearly 6 months and it's a dynamic walk-around lens. It's decent macro to wide zoom and has proven to be fast enough to shoot at dusk and in the night to get full moon and fireworks shots. I am a fiend for shooting traffic late at night, this lens is GREAT for that as well. It's worth a 1st, 2nd and, 3rd look if you are in the market for great moderate priced lenses. « Show Less
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It will not work with your kit lens. There are no teleconverters which will fit EF-S lenses.
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I have this lens, I used it for several months before upgrading to the 75-300 IS USM. If you don't want blurry pictures then you will have to spend the money on better tools. I take a lot of bird pictures and was able to track them using the non IS lens but it was very difficult and unless the pools where the competitions are held are in bright light you won't get sharp pictures. I did try using this one at our dance hall, (poor light for pictures) I eventually had to go to a 50 mm 1.4 that does great in low light. You wanting telephoto though, for the money the 75-300 IS at about $450 was the way that I decided to go and I really like what I get now. I have had my t2i for nearly two and a half years. Hope this helps you a little bit. If you want to see a few of my shots with the IS lens. My flickr page is lightninrod49.
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you seem to know alot Technology guy, so im replying to ya about a lens choice. Its the CanonEF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS for a 50D im purchasing but im not sure if its compatiable or will fit should I say, Because the 50D says its a EF mount and the rebels are EF-S mount. but since they say the 50D dont come with a lens that can take the use of the full power of the camera I wanted to get something I can afford and that lens i mentiond above is less than 300 usd. So please let me know if it works on the 50D without any problems thanks.
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Hi John! If you are doing landscape photography, you don't really need a F2.8 lens. In my opinion, you would want to be between f11-f16 & even f22 for landscape. You will have to use a tripod at night regardless at such small apertures. Having a f2.8 lens won't help you take a sharp picture at night. What you need a good tripod for night photography because of the long exposure :)
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You need to buy an adapter for the wide angle, they are not canon. The two canon lenses work great. The 18 to 55 is a good all around lens. The package deal wasn't bad. I'm a little annoyed about the wide angles not being compatible.
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what is the model of your celestron tripod ,that is very important . and for your Canon EOS Rebel T3,it is OK on the general tripod like B00T5J13GM.thanks!
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Yes, it should be compatible with the Canon EOS Rebel T3. However, if you're purchasing the lens with the idea that it will give you quality photos, please reconsider your purchase. I bought the lens with the expectation that the photos would be sharp and in focus and I was very disappointed. While it can zoom in on objects from far away, the reality is that it's not a very high quality lens and the images you obtain, whether it be mountains in the distance, or a tree across the street, the image will be 'soft', 'out of focus,' and grainy. I've been really disappointed with mine and plan on selling it and purchasing a better lens. I hope this helps. Yes, it should be compatible with the Canon EOS Rebel T3. However, if you're purchasing the lens with the idea that it will give you quality photos, please reconsider your purchase. I bought the lens with the expectation that the photos would be sharp and in focus and I was very disappointed. While it can zoom in on objects from far away, the reality is that it's not a very high quality lens and the images you obtain, whether it be mountains in the distance, or a tree across the street, the image will be 'soft', 'out of focus,' and grainy. I've been really disappointed with mine and plan on... » Read More Yes, it should be compatible with the Canon EOS Rebel T3. However, if you're purchasing the lens with the idea that it will give you quality photos, please reconsider your purchase. I bought the lens with the expectation that the photos would be sharp and in focus and I was very disappointed. While it can zoom in on objects from far away, the reality is that it's not a very high quality lens and the images you obtain, whether it be mountains in the distance, or a tree across the street, the image will be 'soft', 'out of focus,' and grainy. I've been really disappointed with mine and plan on selling it and purchasing a better lens. I hope this helps. « Show Less
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All EF and EF-S lenses will work on the t5i.....however.....if you are going to be recording video then the new 18-55 STM is what you really want to have. It will auto focus very quietly compared to the standard lenses. The older lenses can be quite noisy and the mics in the T5i will pick all that racket up. Now with the older lens I believe you could set it to manual focus and do fine, as long as the subject will be at a fixed distance. Hope I have helped you some. Rod
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I have used this lens with Canon EOS Rebel T4i, Canon EOS 6D, and Canon EOS 5D Mark III. It should work fine. I have, however, found that where I could take really decent, clear photos of, say, dragonflies about 11 feet away from the lens with the Rebel T4i, I have had less success doing the same with the two full frame cameras. Too much has to be cropped away post download, whereas with the cropped sensor of the T4i, the resulting image, even after some reduction, remained sharp and not apparently pixelated. With larger objects this problem has not existed.
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I use it at f8 because at that value is sharp, and for that you need a lot of light( daylight, sun). Not good for indoor/night photos. Also if you want to take sharp pictures of moving targets its not recomended, for that you need a lot of light OR a lens who is sharp at low f OR a camera with low noise at high iso.
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It should work just fine with your lens. There is a bit of a color cast produced by the filters, depending on your editing skills, this is something somewhat easy to fix. I mostly use the graduated filters for sunset and notice a a purpleish tint in the sky that is otherwise not there. For sunsets, this is an acceptable fault for me. For ~$20 you cant go wrong, especially if you are buying these to determine if a higher end filter would be a good fit for your bag.
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Yes, but it won't be very wide angle. Use your kit lens now and zoom to "24" that's as wide as it gets.If you're upgrading your kit lens look at the "Canon 17-55 f2.8 IS USM EF-s" it's specially designed for your camera body.
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The sensor will let you to shoot at ISO 6400 or higher which will enable you too get shots in pretty dark environments. This will produce an image with quite a bit of noise in the dark areas so you will need to use a post processing program to remove the noise. I use Lightroom 5 and it works very well.The 18-55mm kit lens is not a very long telephoto so you will not be able to zoom in from very far away, but the high megapixel sensor allows you to crop-in to use the center of the image.