Why You Should be Buying Cheap Camera Lenses

The camera world loves expensive lenses. There’s always so much love and hype around the Canon L series and I admit, for good reason too. The fact that there are lenses out there that have a mouth watering aperture as wide as f/1.2 is so incredibly dreamy that owning one of these lenses is like something of a career achievement. But at the same time, although expensive lenses have exceptional image quality, at the end of the day, well, they’re still expensive. I mean, $1,000 (usually at the minimum) for the professional realm is just scratching the surface for a lens. But today, I’m going to make the argument of why you should buy some cheap lenses much more often regardless of your stage in the art form. But at the same time, I’m also going to tell you exactly which cheap lenses to look out for because, well, you can’t just buy any of them. Cheap lenses are a like a diamond in the rough. You have to wipe some dirt off of the rocks to know which one is a gem.

So which of these cheap lenses should you be looking out for? I consider cheap lenses to be anything less than $400 (this is relatively inexpensive for a lens), and I include the used market in this price point as well. But the bulk of the lenses I think you should be looking out for are going to be mostly $200 and under. So these lenses shouldn’t be too hard on your wallet, and I even think some of them are…