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Equipment recommendation questions should be specific about budget and goals, yet general enough to be useful to as many readers as possible. Equipment recommendation answers should be worded to be as useful as possible to the broadest range of readers, and when possible account for future price drops (for bargain hunters looking for a cheap "older" camera) to improve the longevity of such topics.

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"One size fits all lens" for Sony and Nikon, or a Nikon lens plus adapter?

Generally speaking, it is possible. See this answer: Is it possible to adapt lens from one brand into another brand's body? Your Sony Alpha uses the old Minolta mount, which has a flange distance of …
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What is the best lens for taking photos of birds?

These are all great answers. I'd just add three things. 1) You can crop pretty aggressively on a modern DSLR so you don't necessarily need to fill the frame. 2) Prime lenses will in general be cheaper …
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What options do I have for a normal and fast prime lens for a Canon APS-C camera?

Many image processing programs can deal with chromatic aberrations (of which purple fringing is an example) pretty well. Photoshop, Lightroom, Bibble, to my knowledge - maybe others too. I used to ow …
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Digital camera for someone without a computer?

It might be worth finding out what kind of camera she already uses, and what she likes and dislikes about the interface. I'd also second the idea of something not too tiny. I don't know how her eyesig …
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What fixed lens to use on a cropped sensor DSLR for mountain landscape photography?

If you have a tripod, it doesn't really matter. As others have said, you can just use f/11 and any wide angle lens, no matter what its maximum speed speed (or indeed quality when wide open) will be fi …
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Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM or Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM?

I'm assuming you have a APS-C cropped sensor camera (e.g. 50D, T2i etc) rather than full frame (5D, 1Ds). In that case both the 85mm (a superb lens) and your 50mm (a very good lens) are fast short tel …
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