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I spend a lot a time in classrooms and in Lynda courses telling students, oh, buying new gear won't make you a better photographer. You know, you don't need to think about, buying some new thing that's going to suddenly improve your images. I can say that because I've bought every piece of gear, and I can tell you it didn't make a difference. I'm going tell you this week though, on this installment of the Practicing Photographer, how you can not spend very much money and get much better use out of your gear. Here's the situation I'm talking about. I have here a 24:105 millimeter lens on my camera. I really like it, it's my walk around lens. It has a 77 millimeter thread size. I also happen to have this 50 millimeter, f1.2 lens that I really like. It's great in low light. It's great when I just want to work with a normal lens. It's got a 72 millimeter filter size. Really, Canon couldn't, 5 millimeters? They couldn't manage to get a 77 millimeter thread size on here? So here's why this…

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