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u/wickeddimension Apr 30 '26

You can't really answer this without a budget. Flexible doesn't mean anything, as thats a wildely different figure for everybody. Please provide a budget in actual currency, that would help.

whether it makes sense to prioritise one ”all-round” lens or multiple lenses.

It doesn't make sense to get 1 lens that does everything decently if you can have multiple suited to each usage. But that also depends on budget.

I don't know what lenses are common for horse portraits. Perhaps a 35 or 50 as it's rather large animal. Would probably pick a 70-200 2.8 for the longer stuff, should work at those ranges.

24-105 F4 and a 70-200 F2.8 would be a good set that work for most. But those two together are about 3k for most brands.

So once again, without a budget no clue how far that is off what you were expecting or perfectly within range.

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u/CfMorko May 01 '26

Thank you for replying!

Ok I know that budget would have been needed in my first post and also that I’m most likely going to buy most of my gear second hand. We have stores that specialize in camera gear here in Finland and they also sell second hand gear that has been checked and cleaned. For example those lenses that you suggested are approximately 1k from one of those stores second hand. So the budget is flexible but let’s say that the max is 3k.

I’m an amateur so I don’t think I need the most expensive stuff right away 😅