What lenses are you currently using?

[Frank Dernie]

I love lenses.
I used to have a lot but sold most through a dealer to create my pension fund. The dealer went bust owing over £1 million, £50 grand of it mine, so not such a good experience
I use an Olympus micro 4/3 camera mostly, the quality to weight ratio being to my liking for the long lenses I use for nature and macro photography.
I did buy a Sony mirrorless camera and a swathe of adaptors so I could use my vintage Canon, Nikon and Leica lenses on a digital body, which was a lot of fun, but for my general photography the Olympus is hard to beat IMO.

 

[JeffS7444]

And the 17/1.2 Olympus Zuiko Pro

But to be honest, I might be a bit happier if lens makers offered their bestest efforts in more compact and moderate-speed optics! Given how good modern digital sensors have become, f/2.8 or even f/4 is still plenty fast for my purposes.

 

[nerdstrike]

Without enumerating everything, I'm getting much gratification out of my Nikon 20mm f1.8G. it's light and wide, and has yielded many lovely images.

The stuff decorating my stairwell comes from a Sigma F-mount 105 macro. I agree with the sentiment from the previous page that good manual control is important for close ups. This lens is merely ok in that regard.

 

[Gorgonzola]

Another Fuji nut here. X-T2 with:

- XF 23 f2
- XF 35 f1.4
- XF 90 f2
- XF 18-70 f4
- XC 70-230
- Samyang 12 f2

I also have a broken 16-55 f2.8 It doesn’t focus properly anymore.

I had the FX 23 f2 for a while but wasn't using very much. A nice lens for sure but basically for the size it wasn't much advantage over the XF 18-55mm. I sold and bought the still more compact and lighter TTartisan 27mm f2.8 Auto Focus.

 

[Gorgonzola]

I'm also fascinated by the possibilities of today's best technology, though I have to rein in my enthusiasm for many of today's flagship lenses because size and weight can be a factor, as I may be carrying them about for hours at a time. For me, ~500 grams is a practical limit for a carry-about lens. But there are a few such lenses which are still manageable for me, such as Sony's 24/1.4 G Master:
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Lovely picture that. I reminds me of some that I took myself in Zion National Park in '19.

I totally understand the preference for a lighter kit -- especially now in my declining years. Speed is rarely of the essence for me either.

 

[Gorgonzola]

I love lenses.
I used to have a lot but sold most through a dealer to create my pension fund. The dealer went bust owing over £1 million, £50 grand of it mine, so not such a good experience
I use an Olympus micro 4/3 camera mostly, the quality to weight ratio being to my liking for the long lenses I use for nature and macro photography.
I did buy a Sony mirrorless camera and a swathe of adaptors so I could use my vintage Canon, Nikon and Leica lenses on a digital body, which was a lot of fun, but for my general photography the Olympus is hard to beat IMO.

I've loved lighter equipment going 'way back when I swapped my Nikon F for an Olympus OM-1. It's the reason I chose the Fujifilm APS-C over a full-frame DSLR or mirrorless. In my case I mostly sold off old camera system lenses as I when to the different system.

The Loawa 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D I'm eyeing is delightfully small and light, (though the 7artisans 12mm I have already is also).

 

[Frank Dernie]

I've loved lighter equipment going 'way back when I swapped my Nikon F for an Olympus OM-1. It's the reason I chose the Fujifilm mirror APS-C over a full-frame DSLR or mirrorless. In my case I mostly sold off old camera system lenses as I when to the different system.

The Loawa 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D I'm eyeing is delightfully small and light, (though the 7artisans 12mm I have already is also).

I rarely use wide angle lenses, personally so the gain for me was the difference in size and weight between my 300mm f4 Olympus lens I use now and the 600mm f4 Nikon lens producing the same magnification.
1270 gm versus 5.1 kg back then
I carry the Olympus lens always, the Nikon only came out if I knew I had a use for it.
When I looked into the Fuji system they didn’t have anything with that magnification. I do have a Fuji X-pro 2

 

[Doodski]

I rarely use wide angle lenses, personally so the gain for me was the difference in size and weight between my 300mm f4 Olympus lens I use now and the 600mm f4 Nikon lens producing the same magnification.
1270 gm versus 5.1 kg back then
I carry the Olympus lens always, the Nikon only came out if I knew I had a use for it.
When I looked into the Fuji system they didn’t have anything with that magnification. I do have a Fuji X-pro 2

Wowzer... Frank the Wiki on you is looking pretty good. Somebody did a nice job on that.

 

[Destination: Moon]

Funny so many of us are Fuji shooters. My first camera was a Mamiya Sekor 500 at 12 yrs

I started with Fuji when they released the XE1 and now use the XT20 and XT2 regularly.
(Recently got a flying camera but that's another topic.)
I like having dials vs buttons to control things.

Lenses:
14mm
18 -55 kit Japan This lens made me a Fuji convert. It's incredibly sharp, fast and surprisingly light. A miracle lens!
55-200
70-300
100-400

Unlike some other mfgs, the Fuji lenses are remarkably consistent. The Japanese versions amazingly so.
I used to order 3 to 5 of the same lens before Fuji and the variation, even on top tier lenses, between one copy and the next was huge. So happy Fuji came along

 

[JeffS7444]

Sony RX100:

Olympus Pen-F, Olympus Zuiko 14-42EZ:

Sony RX100:

Sony RX100:

 

[JeffS7444]

Carl Zeiss 120/5.6 S-Planar. Shot on film with Hasselblad 500C camera.

 

[JeffS7444]

16/2.8 Zenitar fisheye (on Sony A7):

 

[LTig]

Nikon F and MFT here. About half of the lenses listed below I bought second hand and never had a problem with them.

• Nikon: lots of old AIS lenses (28, 35, 50/f1.2 105/f2.8 micro, 135/f2, 180/f2.8, 28-85, 50-300) and new AF ones (AFD 85/f1.8, AFS 14-24/f2.8, AFS 24-120/f4, AFS 70-200/f4, Sigma 150-500). They all work on a D800, but the AIS zooms are too soft.
• MFT: Pana 14/f2.4, Pana 20/f1.7, Oly 45/f1.8, Oly 75/f1.8, Pana 12-60, Pana/Leica 100-400. They fit on either a Panasonic GX7 or GX9. I can also use all Nikon lenses on them with an adapter.

This year was the first vacation where I left the Nikon at home due too its weight. I use the MFT system for taking pics at events in our local opera house due to their silent electronic shutter, that's why I got the 45 and 75 mm lenses. This one below was shot with the Nikon 105 micro though:

And this one with the Pana/Leica 100-400 @ 100mm (Austerdals glacier, Norway):

 

[Destination: Moon]

Sony RX100:
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Olympus Pen-F, Olympus Zuiko 14-42EZ:
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Sony RX100:
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Sony RX100:
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Which RX? I have the one with a 28-100 which is probably 7 years old? An amazing camera on so many levels

 

[mhardy6647]

Funny so many of us are Fuji shooters. My first camera was a Mamiya Sekor 500 at 12 yrs

I think I was 13 when I got mine. Still have it. Still works.




My son's done more with it than have I, though, in "recent" years.

Mamiya/Sekor 500TL with Mamiya/Sekor Auto 50mm f/2

Camera: Mamiya/Sekor 500TL circa 1966 - 1973 Lens mount: M42 screw mount Shutter: 1 - 1/500s plus bulb Depth-of-Field Preview: Yes...

icouldbeahero.blogspot.com

 

[dualazmak]

I purchased EF 24-105 mm /f4L IS USM together with EOS 5D Mark II, and later purchased EF 24-105 mm /f4L IS II USM together with EOS 5D Mark IV. Consequently, the latter is my current daily use with 5D Mk IV.

 

[JeffS7444]

Which RX? I have the one with a 28-100 which is probably 7 years old? An amazing camera on so many levels

First version, still in almost perfect condition.

 

[JeffS7444]

17/4.5 Lomo Minigon (On Lomo LC-Wide film camera):

 

[JeffS7444]

Fujifilm Instax Mini 90

 

[JeffS7444]

Olympus Stylus Tough TG-4