Let's talk about lenses. prime lenses, every photographer should have a 50 millimeter prime at least I my favorite prime lamp is 85 millimeter and that's why I carry my bag. But you can get low cost 50 millimeter primes the cheaper on the Canon cameras on our neck on. But on the canon, you've got the nifty 50 which is less than hundred pounds hundred dollars. So you should have one of those in your bag. Now when you're choosing a prime, what you want to consider is remember that the camera prime is important lenses important that's why we're talking about prime lenses.
These are the fixed aperture lenses if remember from earlier these are lenses with no zoom, just one focal range, so 50 millimeter for instance, or might be 2485 or 200. So then you have a prime you might have two or three more stops of available light from what you're used to having. So that's why a prime is very important to have, it's going to give you the stops of light when you need them. Budget primes tend to do the job, they tend to have lower build quality, they have less aperture blades, that means that the the rings in a bouquet in the background, not as strong, and there's sometimes slower. So you might buy the Canon 85 1.8 whereas they have a 1.2. And the price difference is like five times the price difference, sometimes a little bit slower.
Sometimes they don't give quite as pleasing a background and they might not be quite as sharp as the really expensive ones. But most people will never see it. So budget primes a good place to start. Don't go rushing out spending loads on things, get a couple of budget problems in your bag and play with those and have a day where you just go out shoot with the prime and whatnot. will do is it'll teach you how to use your feet to zoom. zooms can make you a little bit lazy.
But if you've if you've got a prime fixed on your camera, if this was called zoom with your feet, it means you have to move back and forth to get the frame. So good technique to learn. And it's a good skill to learn to improve your photography. But budget primes get you going. Premium primes, they tend to have higher build quality, more aperture blades, you're going to get that nicer bouquets. They tend to be faster.
But consider the third party primes. I'm a big fan of sigma primes. You know the quality you get in them is phenomenal. And they're often very, very close to the Canon primes. And usually a third less sometimes half less of the comparable price. And when you're talking for 800 pounds or 1600 pounds for lens, you know third party primes extremely good.
Now obviously if you're shooting in outside conditions, check the weather sealing on them. But you know, third party primes, you can get some cracking primes from the third party manufacturers like sigma and Tamra much cheaper and they might just do what you need but they're still premium primes. The still much better than the budget price tends to be the budget primes tend to be make cheap plastic. But the higher end Prime's tend to be made out of metal bodies or very high quality plastic and tend to be much, much better built and have more glass in them. Essentially.