Lens Kit is Lens which is sold bundling with camera body. Evenly the Lens Kit didn’t seen interesting , the materials are made from plastic , and the specifications don’t make us proud to have it, but lens kit is the perfect option for who is just starting to learn photography with the low budget of course.
Let’s figure out the 7 great features that you don’t know or sometimes you forget:
1. The advantages of Lens Kit: Have 4 focal length at once in 1 Lens
Even though Lens Kit didn’t looked so interesting, but lens kit have 4 classic focal length , in other world a lens kit can substitute 4 prime/fixed lens at once
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Four classic focal lengths such as : 28 mm (wide-angle), 35mm( medium wide), 50mm (normal) and 85mm (portrait). The numbers of focal length above is the numbers of full frame camera, the length of focal is equivalent for APSC camera , they are : 18mm, 23mm, 35mm, and 56mm. And at this time , most of lens kit for APSC camera have 18-55mm focal length.The other choice is lens Kit with focal length from wide until approach the full frame camera, lens Kit that mos people have is 24-105mm.
Indeed, Lens Kit will offer the great aperture, the biggest is in numbers f/3.5, but at least you can get the basic function from 4 lens ( or more) in one Lens Kit.
2. The Advantages of Lens: Small and Light
Lens kit that was often sold bundling with the APSC camera is 18-55mm. This lens is pretty plain, but need to know that he also very light and small.
For example, Lens Kit Canon 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 STM that only 200 grams with the maximum length only 6 cm.
Meanwhile this lens is like intermediate specification, Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM that is 650 grams and maximum length is 11 cm. Almost twice more length and 3 times more heavy.
Similar with Nikon. Lens Kit Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 have weight 195 gram and maximum length is 6 cm. Compare with Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8G DX that have weight in 755 grams and maximum length is 11 cm.
If you walk away or traveling, weight and the size like this is very useful.
3. Advantages of Lens Kit: The filter is more cheap
Lens Filter still useful, even we live in the digital era. And the rule of this filter is : more wide the filter diameter the price is more expensive.
Basic Lens kit above have small size , and need the filter size also more small.
Filter Kenko Pro–1 CPL (circular polarize) that useful for cropping the reflection when we shoot on shiny surface ( water, mirror, and etc) that have size 77mm ( professional lens). Compare with the filter that similar with Lens Kit ( diameter 58mm).
4. Advantages of Lens Kit: good minimum focusing Distance
Minimum Focusing Distance, is the size of ability of lens when shoot the object in short distance. Indeed, it can’t be compared with macro lens, but surprisingly this lens have more good MFD better than the other expensive lens.Both of them ( 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 of Canon nor Nikon) have more good minimum focusing distance better than lens 17-55mm f/2..8 which is more expensive.
5. Advantages of Lens Kit: Only buy that we want
There is a phrase that really means in photography ( and the other field); when we confuse about what we have to buy, it means that we don’t need yet. When you’ve used lens kit in quite long time, you will know anything about photography. Also you may more know about your photography style.
When you know about your taste or passion is a landscape photography and you’ve grew exceed the lens Kit, just buy the special landscape lens : 10-22mm or 12-24mm.
6. Advantages of Lens Kit: Cheap doesn’t mean always ugly
If you learned economic in school, maybe you know about economies of scale. Lens Kit are sold very cheap because the lens Kit maker produce many lens kit so the budget for production is less.
You know that Canon 600mm f/4L can be sold with US$ 1000, beside it need many material, also because the production of this lens is not many so the budget for production is high.
In optic, this lens is quite capable to learn about photography until you feel so boring and know all over about the abilities of this camera., then you can do the upgrade lens.
7. Advantages of Lens Kit : Saving can be used to buy the other
All Len stores sell the Lens kit with the price is very cheap when we buy bundling with the camera body.
