What’s Your Preference?

kitggkat · #1 (**permalink**) 05-25-2011, 03:31 PM

I own a Rebel XS. I would like a decent wide(ish)-angle lens for relatively cheap lens for portraits that can get a good bokeh effect also.

EF 35mm f2.0
or
EF 24mm f2.8

OsmosisStudios · #2 (**permalink**) 05-25-2011, 08:17 PM

"good bokeh effect" is ambiguous. What are you looking for, exactly?

Neither of those lenses is wide on a crop sensor, and only the second (24mm) is wide on full-frame.

kitggkat · #3 (**permalink**) 05-26-2011, 12:41 PM

by bokeh i guess i mean good DOF.

I guess what im trying to ask is, What would you suggest for a cheap wide-angle lens for a Rebel XS that would take good portraits?

zona5101 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-26-2011, 02:24 PM

generally wide angle lens and portrait lens are mutually exclusive. the 35mm would be the better compromise of the two when used as a portrait lens. You have the 50 which would be ever better than either the 24 or 35 and because of that I would go with the wider 24 for interiors, large groups, landscape shots.