Beginner SLR Digital camera question?

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Beginner SLR Digital camera question?Uh, I recently bought my sister a Olympus E-500 SLR Camera for her upcoming birthday. She's a photographer, and I don't know anything about cameras. So that being said, I have two choices for lens, either a '14-45mm' or '40-150mm,' which one would be more practical?
Also, I have tried out either lens and it seems to me that it cannot capture moving objects well. I mean, the object must stay still orelse it'll turn up blurry in the photos.
Help anyone? Thankkk you. :)

Kirol
That's not to do with the lens, that's shutter speed / aperture combination.
The more practical lens would be to do with what your sister is going to be shooting.
Not sure why you went for an Olympus, though. Nikon or Canon would've been a better choice for a DSLR. Olympus make good Film cameras, but the quality is a little lacking on their DSLRs.

Anyway. It should come with an 18-55mm lens (or something thereabouts) which means it offers a bit of wide angle, and a bit of zoom.
If it didn't come with a lens at all, definitely go for the 14-45mm as it's going to be the more useful to start off with.
The 40-150 won't allow you to get close up objects and will force you to move away, but does offer more zoom, making it better for sports and wildlife. (Though, for both of these, 70-300mm is a far better choice.)

Personally, I'd have said get an OM10 and some film instead if you were going to go for Olympus.

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The two lenses compliment each other. They do not do the same thing. It depends on the type of pictures she will take. It is also possible to get one lens that will cover most of the capabilities of these two. I am not familar with Olympus line but most digital SLR will let you set ISO (this is the essentially the light sensitivity/equivalent to film speed). In order to get a non blurry photo of a fast moving object, you need to have a fast shutter speed. If you are trying to accomplish this without a flash you can adjust the ISO to a higher value. Typically, high end digital SLRs will allow higher values of ISO.

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