Hey anons,
I'm going to some museum exhibits to take some photos, and I'm wanting to buy a DSLR to then return when I'm done to take good photos with. I did this twice in the past (well, one time I borrowed from family, the one I bought and returned was a rebel t6 iirc), to moderate success: I think most of the photos came out pretty okay.
The main issue I rain into was I couldn't get as much of each object in focus as I would want. Less so the actual height/width of the object being out of focus (tho that was a concern too), and moreso the depth: In pic related for example the face and the body of the figure is in focus, but the limbs are a bit behind those and are out of focus/blurry.
Currently I ordered this bundle
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/canon-eos-rebel-t7-dslr-video-two-lens-kit-with-ef-s-18-55mm-and-ef-75-300mm-lenses/6323759.p?skuId=6323759 to use, but I'm wondering if the lenses this
https://www.newegg.com/p/0UP-009J-003G6 or this or this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N7N1C3U/ has might be better, since a cursory search suggests a wide angle lense has more of the photo in focus (tho I don't quite understand what makes the "wide angle lense" and "telephoto lense" included in those bundles wide or telephoto: both say 58mm? is that not the focal length?)
Keep also in mind I would be photographing things in a museum with sometimes low light and where I would be point blank (putting the camera up to the case glass to minimize the glass visually obscuring the objects/to give me a stable surface to lean on to keep the camera steady) or only a few feet away.
Secondly, I remember having an issue where going full manual with the apeture, ISO, shutter speed, etc just gave me pitch black images, and I settled for an auto mode where I just made manual f-stop and I think ISO tweaks. Is that sufficient or shpould I really try to do fully manual settings and if so what was I doing wrong
