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Originally Posted by OhioAndy58
Hey grey girl your not alone, I have the Olympus E510 and I can't take indoor shots to save my life. I was told I need a faster lens the 12-60 2.8 lens but it costs around $900.00 I tried taking picures with higher !SO in the aperature mode but still dark & blurry.
Can anybody help me as well as grey.
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Yep -- you don't need an ultra-expensive f/2.8 zoom. What you need is a relatively cheap prime lens. Prime lenses (which have only one fixed focal length, no zooming!) are usually MUCH faster (have better light-gathering abilities) than zooms. For example, Nikon is selling a fast 35mm f/1.8 lens for about $200 (that's more than double the light gathering ability of an f/2.8 lens). If you pay a little more, you can get an f/1.4 prime, which is 4x as much light gathering ability as f/2.8.
Primes also tend to be a bit sharper, better constructed, and all around awesome lenses.