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  • Fajitas
    Participant

    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!

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    Mark
    Keymaster

    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

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    ciaran
    Participant

    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

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    Mark
    Keymaster

    You sure you like the 24-70 Ciaran ? :lol:

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    Noah
    Participant

    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.

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    filmfred
    Participant

    A simple 50mm 1.4 lens, keeping it real :D

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    gerardk
    Participant

    I’d agree on the 50m 1.4 – followed by the 10-20 – then a cheap 3rd hand mungy zoom.

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    ciaran
    Participant

    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).

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    _brian_
    Participant

    I love the 30mm 1.4 Sigma ,when it works that is .

    Dof and night time shots are great with it.

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    SteveFE
    Member

    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).

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    DaveC
    Participant

    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

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    Ali
    Participant

    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.

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    nolonger
    Participant

    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!

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    DaveC
    Participant

    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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    Mark
    Keymaster

    VR mmmmmmm :mrgreen:

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