I Have A Kit Lens - How Do I Know Which Lens To Buy To Progress My Photography?
If you have a kit lens and want to progress with your photography you need to answer the following questions
What do you want to use the new lens for?
What will this new lens enable you to do that you cannot do with your kit lens?
How much are you willing/ comfortable to pay for a new lens?
Do you want a zoom lens or a fixed focal length lens?
Are you planning on changing your camera/ camera system?
Do you buy a lens made by your camera manufacturer, or do you buy a lens made by someone else?
New or second hand?
Are you going to buy any other lenses in the future?
What Is A Kit Lens? What You Need To Know Without The Irrelevant Detail!
Right. A kit lens is a camera lens normally sold with a camera body as part of a starter kit. The most commonly sold kit lens is the 18-55mm lens, although other focal length kit lenses are sold. Kit lenses are at the lower end of the price and quality ranges and are aimed at new photographers looking to upgrade from phones and fixed-lens cameras.
There is no formal definition of what a kit lens is.
And that's the killer in all of this. There is no formal definition of what a kit lens is.