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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
Well, I don't have any experience with cheap lenses so I'm afraid I won't be of much help to you. I'm sure someone will chime in with their thoughts though.
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If you're a Canon shooter I recommend the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens. It retails for about $400USD and was my workshorse for a while until I built up my L-series collection.
To be safe, make sure whatever lens you shoot you try to shoot it as close to the middle aperture of the lens as possible. For example, the lens above has a range of f/3-5 to f/22 (wide) and f/5.6 to f/32 (zoom). So you would want to shoot as close to f/11 as possible to ensure sharpness.
You can shoot it at f/3.5 or f/2.8 or f/32 or whatever, and your sharpness will be fine depending on your output. Digital sensors do not read light the same way film does, so shooting wide open or closed down affects sharpness in a way that is too complex to describe here.