{"id":204,"date":"2005-12-04T17:43:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T21:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blogtest\/2005\/12\/04\/lens-shopping-advice-for-digital-sl"},"modified":"2005-12-04T17:43:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T21:43:19","slug":"lens-shopping-advice-for-digital-slr-camera-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/lens-shopping-advice-for-digital-slr-camera-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Lens shopping advice for digital SLR camera owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a11968'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I get a lot of folks emailing thanking me for the advice in <A href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/photography\/building-a-digital-slr-system\">http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/photography\/building-a-digital-slr-system<\/A>&nbsp;but asking for more details on &#8220;what lenses should I buy now that I have a digital camera.&#8221;&nbsp; I&#8217;m trying gradually to write a little bit about that and the first simple article is <A href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/photography\/sigma-lenses\">http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/photography\/sigma-lenses<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Suggested improvements would be appreciated, either via email to <A href=\"mailto:philg@mit.edu\">philg@mit.edu<\/A> or in the comments section.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Thanks.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of folks emailing thanking me for the advice in http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/photography\/building-a-digital-slr-system&nbsp;but asking for more details on &#8220;what lenses should I buy now that I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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