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Any recommendations for the most versatile, highest-quality lens for the R50 (for ~$600)? (lemm.ee)

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Total beginner here, looking to buy my first camera and looking for a lens that would be able to deal with the widest range of situations (a zoom one) all in one package. I've got about 600usd to spend on it and I'm fully aware it's not much, but I want to get a good start.

I can't buy used ones where I live (even from online platforms around the world), so it'd have to be new.

At the moment my goal is to take photos of pretty much everything: nature (apart from moving animals), landscapes, streets, portraits, objects (large and small), architecture, and I also plan to film videos quite a bit. Nothing fast moving and no sports though.

I'd love to shoot in close-up macro, too, but I understand it's not possible within one lens.

What could you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't have a Canon, but I have a similar use case for my Fujifilm which is also an aspc sensor and I've found 18-80mm zoom lens and 23 mm prime have been the most useful to me. Those would be equivalent to 27-120mm and 35mm Full frame lenses.