From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Examining cost issues
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
Examining cost issues
Robbie Carman: Okay Rich, now that we've talked about some of the benefits of prime lenses, one other thing that's going to happen to you when you go online, or go into the camera store and start shopping for prime lenses, is that you're going to go, whoa! These are pretty expensive lenses, and in some cases they're actually more expensive than zoom lenses. Richard Harrington: Well, it really just depends, because if you are going for that insane 0.9 lens you talked about, it's going to be a lot more expensive than a 1.8 lens, and not just maybe twice as much expensive, maybe three, four times as much expensive. Robbie Carman: Yeah, so as you get to that maximum aperture value, that lower number, that means dollars, most of the time. Richard Harrington: Yeah. It's kind of like a sports car, right? Like there are only so many people who are going to buy the Lamborghini, so they could charge more, and that's part of it. They just don't make as many. On the flipside though, you could…
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