Santa time, what shall I ask for?

WoZZeR

WoZZeR

WoZZeR

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Hello chaps

It's Christmas soon and between them, my partner, mum and my piggy bank can perhaps rustle up £200 to spend.

My camera is an EOS 350D which I have been happy with since I bought it in 2007. I also have a fine tripod with separate head for fancy angles.

What could Santa bring to enhance my happy snapping.

I'm not a serious photographer, I just take snaps when out and about and indoor stuff for my website.

Are the cheaper zoom lenses any good?

Or, a flash gun?
 
I would recommend the 55-250is if you want a cheap zoom. Or flash wise a yn468 or similar for cheap flash. I have both and for the ££££ can't be overlooked for a small budget.
 
Cheers for that, I think I will plump for a lens as I seldom use flash, I searched for the 55-250 and also found this one:

Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM

I presume it's very similar to the 55-250?

 
Get a flash! Your photography will change unbelievably when you start using a flash!

Trust me :)
 
I'm going to disagree on the Flash, especially as OP said he doesn't really use his pop up.

If you are just using the 350D with the kit lens 18-55... I'd defiantly get some kind of telephoto. It will give you far more reach and you will be able to isolate your subjects more by blowing out the background.

The first lens I bought back when I used my 350D, which was my first DSLR, was a Sigma 70-300.
 
The obvious question is what does he photograph?

"I'm not a serious photographer, I just take snaps when out and about and indoor stuff for my website."

Id say a flash would be a good addition for taking photos of objects and when inside. A flash teaches you on how to work with light and how you can make things pop. I bought a flash its changed how I do photography.
 
Cheers for the replies chaps.

I will need a flash at some point, the indoor photography is pictures and paintings so will get a ring flash in the future, luckily my birthday is in February.... :)

So, I'll probably plump for the lens and a lens hood for christmas.
 
Hehehehehe :)

Well Santa came this year despite the lack of a chimney and delivered a nice shiny new Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM.

I shall have a play with it tomorrow and set it up on the tripod and have a bash at snapping the birdies on the fat ball feeder in the garden.
 
All our bird feeders have fallen on the floor in the wind. I'm assuming we need to clean them all now, as lots of cats patrol the area and probably have their scent on them now. Would explain why we had loads of birds, then suddenly none :( Well, that and it's now windy and cold.
 
I hear lots of "using a flash will change things", but nobody seems to say in what way?

Care to enlighten the brother who has yet to be advanced
 
Good point sir, on static objects indoors I tend to use no flash and my tripod, not understanding manual mode I often use A-dep.
 
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