RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

A wide-range zoom is practical as a general walk-around lens, but what do you use for those special situations? For example, I carry a macro lens in my tackle box - close-focusing ‘cause I can′t catch big fish, floating elements ‘cause I can′t swim.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I like the fisheye and macro. I also like shooting with my IR body. It's nice getting away from standard images.

amehta Loc: Boston

Since I'm only carrying around primes, are they all special purpose lenses? :-)

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

Mine are special because I love them. I had mine professionally focus calibrated yesterday which I highly recommend. My 105G (0), 24-70 (0) and my 70-200 (-4). My 70-200 seems to be my favorite.

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

guess its too early in the day for humor.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

I like birds in my back yard attracted by feeders. The 300MM f/2.8 VRII is sharp, focuses quickly and with and with out a TC 1.4E II covers the distances I need.

Performance wise its among the best Nikon Lenses. The only down side is the cost.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Indeed they are. :)

hochspeyer Loc: Chicago

Currently, a macro. Back in my film days, Pan-X with a 250mm Minolta catadiaoptric lens. Which was interesting, as the film was ASA-32, and the lens was a fixed f5.6 (I also shot Kodachrome ASA-64 with the same lens). I must've looked truly weird walking about with a tabletop tripod attached to the camera around my neck.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Rokinon 8 mm fisheye. Just a lot of fun to use, can take a 180 degree panorama in 2 exposures.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Just what I was thinking. I seem to have been taken seriously, scary thought! :lol:

DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia

Ditto. My 8mm fisheye stays permanently fitted to my old D3100, for those odd ball fisheye shots. I use my D7100 & SX50 for everything else.
:-)

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

I'd never cared much for wide angle lenses (narrow minded), but awhile back in going over some old unmounted transparencies I'm going to scan I came across some taken with a 58mm Super Angulon on my Graflex XL. I recall that I used it because I was too much of a coward to set up in the middle of a busy street to get the picture with the 100mm Zeiss. I bought a 21mm Super Angulon for my Leicaflex about 40 years ago and only used it 3 times, including once for initial testing. The last time was when I came upon a scene that I couldn't back up enough for my 35mm to cover without chopping down some trees, by which time the sun would have gone down, so I ran down the mountain about a mile to get the 21mm from my Jeep then back up just in time to capture the scene before the light changed. I could not have gotten that picture just as I wanted it with anything narrower. Going over those Graflex transparencies got me thinking how many scenes I've neglected for not having a wide angle lens with me, so I ordered an adapter to mount the 21mm on my DSLR. It came Monday, and I'm heading out soon with it. It's a different way of seeing the world for me. (I'm leaving it home when I go photographing bears in Kodiak, though - still a coward. :lol: )
Fisheyes seem fascinating, and I may yet dabble with one.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Jerry, you're here so much I marvel that you find time to take pictures! :lol: Enjoy your comments. :)

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Heck, Dave, even a 50-year-old Dallmeyer is special, as long as it will mount on your camera and you can take pictures through it! :)

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

I had an opportunity to buy one of the first IF-ED AIs about 35 years ago, but bought a house instead. It is an outstanding performer, and doesn't scare the birds as much as a 20 Ga. shotgun. :lol: