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What lenses are you currently using?

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.
 
And the 17/1.2 Olympus Zuiko Pro
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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.
 
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.
 
voodooless said:
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 :mad: It doesn’t focus properly anymore.
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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.
 
JeffS7444 said:
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.

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Frank Dernie said:
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.
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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).
 
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Gorgonzola said:
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).
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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
 
Frank Dernie said:
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
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Wowzer... Frank the Wiki on you is looking pretty good. Somebody did a nice job on that. :D
 
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
 
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:
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And this one with the Pana/Leica 100-400 @ 100mm (Austerdals glacier, Norway):
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Destination: Moon said:
Funny so many of us are Fuji shooters. My first camera was a Mamiya Sekor 500 at 12 yrs
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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.

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