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Choosing whether to borrow or buy

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Choosing whether to borrow or buy

One of the great things about some of the lenses that we've looked at here is that they're extremely affordable. Some of the other things that we've looked at here are not so affordable. Tilt-shift lenses, very long telephoto lenses, high-quality ultra-wide lenses, these can easily start at a thousand dollars apiece, depending on the specs of the particular lens you're looking at. And before you think, "Well, then I'll never be able to shoot with any of these," consider the possibility of lens rental. It used to be that to rent a lens you had to have a good rental house in your area, but with online rental you can now rent just about any type of lens no matter where you live. In fact, several of the lenses that you've seen in this course are lenses that we have rented. And we've rented them all from borrowlenses.com. Borrowlenses has a huge assortment of lenses for various cameras, great pricing, and they're very easy to deal with. If you think shipping the lens back and forth is…

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