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Fave Lens?
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What’s your most used, absolute, take it everywhere lens?
Mine has to be the Sigma 10-20 DX.
Great lens, whether its on my 300D, where’s its pretty much 100% corrected and gives some great images or on my 1000Fn, with massive vignetting and for some reason, a lot more colour saturation!
My Nikon 18-70mm, great lens, always on.
Nikkor 50mm 1.8 is the sharpest I have though.
For macro my 60mm 2.8 Nikkor is great
Will buy the Nikon 70-200mm VR (with 1.4 teleconvertor) some day
Has to be my work horse lens, which is on my camera more often than not, and mentioned endlessly in my posts. It’s my Sigma 24-70mm f2.8
I still have lens lust for the 70-200mm f2.8 but it’s SO hard to come by
Mine would be my Canon 70-300mm. There’s nothing like a good telephoto zoom (for me, anyhow) to isolate subjects dramatically and pull in close to them… and it’s much sharper than the Canon 100-400mm I used to have.
I’d agree on the 50m 1.4 – followed by the 10-20 – then a cheap 3rd hand mungy zoom.
Mark wrote:
You sure you like the 24-70 Ciaran ? :lol:
Apart from the price… what’s not to like?
The f2.8 through the range is just brilliant and it’s a pretty sharp lens with the sweet spot around f4. Another thing I really like about it is the minimum aperture of f32 (although I rarely make use of it).
I love the 30mm 1.4 Sigma ,when it works that is .
Dof and night time shots are great with it.
At present Canon 17-40L f4. Just wide enough on a D30, super contrasty, rocket focus, built like a tank. I suspect whatever I buy next will be new favourite though (can’t decide between 85mm f1.8 for portraits and low light, 100mm f2.8 macro or 70-200L f4 for everything not wide).
Hi all,
My fave lens at the moment is Nikon 50mm F1.4.
Recently bought Nikon 70-200mm VR f2.8, great for candid shots at weddings.
DaveC
Welcome to the forum Dave! How do you find the 70-200 ?
As for my favourite lens :) Well i am limited to the 18-70 at the moment but i’m saving for a decent lens.
I have been toying with the idea of going for the 70-200 VR but i’m not overly convinced that VR is something
that i need. It would be helpful yes for low lighting conditions, quieter AF (incase i scare off the birdies :)) etc …
I have heard decent reports of the previous 80-200 AF-S f2.8 which is significantly cheaper.
I’m not convinced i need the VR so i might just settle for the 80-200 if i can get it.I am DROOOOLING over a VR lens. Can’t even remotely afford one, but I can’t wait till I can! I was reading a review, somewhere, where the reviewer took a handheld shot indoors with VR turned on – I think it was a 1/2 second exposure. No blur! That is truly impressive (to me, at least :))
Edit: not the review I was thinking of, but Ken Rockwell’s sample gallery with the 18-200VR is pretty impressive. All of the shots are handheld!
With the Nikon VR 70-200mm (VR switched on), I have got reasonably sharp images at 200mm, f2.8 at shutter speeds of 1/15. Subject has to be motionless, also needs a monopod to cope with the extra weight (extremely heavy on a D200 with battery pack).
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