What a difference!

My new camera lens came today. I am so excited to be able to get some pictures that I don't have to edit out my whaa-zoo. I went simple and bought the 50mm lens that is usually part of a kit with the Canon Rebel. My previous lenses were crap. Loads of crap. I hated them. Well that really isn't fair. They could be excellent lenses on the right camera, I wouldn't know. It took me almost a year to find out that the reason the lenses gave me crappy pictures is that they were on the wrong type of camera. The store advertised the lenses incorrectly and I didn't research enough and I ended up with film lenses on a digital camera. And it makes a HUGE difference. Basically the light bounces around a lot more inside a film lens than in a digital. The more light bouncing around and reflecting in the lens the more over exposed and hazy the picture will look. Film cameras can counteract all this extra reflection and light, the digital camera's don't do so well. Especially outside. I could live with indoor pictures made with the film lens, but not the outdoor pictures. And I will show you why. I braved the cold for a whole 2 minutes this afternoon to take some pictures of some trees. (It was too cold to drag the kids out and I was too lazy to go hunt something pretty)

Here is the picture taken with the old film lens. It looks over exposed, hazy, dull, and not at all sharp.

This is taken with the new lens. The colors are much deeper, the picture is sharper and the haze is gone!


I can't wait to be able to go outside and get some real pictures. I will actually feel like using my camera more now. And I can't wait to NOT sit for hours trying desperately to photoshop 200 pictures in an effort to get 5 decent ones.