Okay, so I’ve finally decided that I’m pretty much going to go prime lenses only. I’m gonna get the new Canon 24mm f/2.8 lens—while it’s on sale—and ditch the 18-55mm kit lens that came with my T3i. So that means I’ll have a 24mm & 40mm pancake lenses, an 85mm f/1.8, and my beloved (but very heavy) 100mm f/2.8 macro as my main lenses.

The macro will only come along if I’m sure I’m gonna need it because of the weight (the 85mm is on the heavy side too, so it has to be one or the other). I’ll keep my 55-250mm f/4-5.6 telephoto zoom until sometime in the (probably very distant) future when I can afford either the 200mm f/2.8L or the 70-200mm f/4L—I’ll have to figure out what’s more important to me, the zoom or the faster aperture. I’m NOT paying $1000 or more for a freaking lens. If I was a pro or had lots of disposable income, then yeah.

So that leaves only my poor, neglected little 50mm f/1.8 “plastic fantastic”. I hate that lens. Seriously, just looking at it annoys me, and I’m annoyed that I’m annoyed because it’s just a freaking inanimate object, FFS. It takes a nice enough photo, but the focus is s-l-o-w, I hate the cheap plastic mount (which the kit lens & the 55-250mm also have), and the focal length… it just feels weird to me. Maybe I wouldn’t hate it so much if I had a full frame camera. Then again, if I could afford a full frame I probably wouldn’t stick a crappy $100 lens on it.

#FirstWorldProblems

Did I emotion that I bought a variable ND filter and the 500D close-up lens to go with my other 250D one? Yeah, I know there are cheaper sets out there, but these have two achromatic elements to correct chromatic aberrations, so there’s essentially no loss of light or sharpness.

Yeah, tl;dr. //