lonewolf456 wrote:
I am VERY new to digital photography and have a Canon T4i. Trying to learn and understand it's capabilities, slowly. I hesitate to ask questions because my depth of photo knowledge is very low. This thread is asking for a suggestion on a go to lens and several have been suggested. My question is why were these lens chosen? The leading manufacturers have many lenses which do different things, but I don't know what these things are. Be gentle, I'm just learning, very slowly.
From the responses, it appears that a zoom lens is chosen most often due to its versatility. One way to determine the best lens is to look at the exif of all your photos and see which length is used most often by YOU. I got that advice here.