{"id":8219,"date":"2006-05-03T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/camera-lenses\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:26","slug":"camera-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/camera-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first off, both of my auctions sold via buy-it-now. This is good, especially as I purchased the lenses for less than they actually sold for. Not much less, but I didn&#8217;t lose any money.<\/p>\n<p>Second, after talking a bunch with <lj user=cavorite> a bunch about lenses, I ended up ordering two lenses instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/c0nsumer.livejournal.com\/865193.html\">the single Canon 60mm macro I had been previously considering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I ended up getting is the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.usa.canon.com\/ir\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=152&#038;modelid=7306\">Canon EF 50mm f\/1.8 II<\/a> which is an especially cheap 50mm lens which receives some great reviews. It&#8217;s less than $80 shipped, and almost every review I read of it says that it&#8217;s an excellent lens just to have around.<\/p>\n<p>The second lens I ordered, which also receives excellent reviews, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thkphoto.com\/products\/tokina\/afl-m100-a.html\">Tokina 100mm f\/2.8 AT-X 100 PRO D Macro<\/a>. It&#8217;ll do 1:1 (life-size) at 30cm, and seems to be pretty well made.<\/p>\n<p>So, the end result is that for an additional ~$100 I&#8217;m getting a 100mm 1:1 macro, a 50mm walk-around \/ portrait \/ whatever lens, and protective filters for both. Also, the Tokina comes with a hood in the package&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, first off, both of my auctions sold via buy-it-now. This is good, especially as I purchased the lenses for less than they actually sold for. Not much less, but I didn&#8217;t lose any money. Second, after talking a bunch with a bunch about lenses, I ended up ordering two lenses instead of the single\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13410,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}