Your Favorite (I'll never give it up) Lens (Page 7): Can't say I have an absolute favorite. I have captured many more images with my 600 f/4 (it is my cheapest "per exposure") than any...

Bob Boner

Can't say I have an absolute favorite. I have captured many more images with my 600 f/4 (it is my cheapest "per exposure") than any other. I also like the 180mm macro lens a lot.

Trentc Loc: Denver, CO

My Olympus 17mm f1.8. Small, light, and super-sharp.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

Hmarge wrote:

Just wondering, if you had a choice of having only one lens for your camera, which one would you keep and why?

Canon 28-200. It's sharp, crisp and very accurate. It's the best all around I own and I, as you put it, won't give it up.

Dalek Loc: Detroit, Miami, Goffstown

This is obviously a trick question. No photographer in his/her right mind would answers this as there is no answer. One lens, are you kidding?
(Actually, ask my wife as she thinks I only own one lens.)

OldEarl Loc: Northeast Kansas

My 105mm f/2.8 Nikkor that I bought for $100 used and later paid a $75 to convert to aperture indexing. The reason? For a quarter century it traveled with me and saved my rep more times that I can remember.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

OldEarl wrote:

My 105mm f/2.8 Nikkor that I bought for $100 used and later paid a $75 to convert to aperture indexing. The reason? For a quarter century it traveled with me and saved my rep more times that I can remember.

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

oldtigger wrote:

24-70/2.8 for its range

Same here.

digit-up Loc: Flushing, Michigan

Dalek wrote:

This is obviously a trick question. No photographer in his/her right mind would answers this as there is no answer. One lens, are you kidding?
(Actually, ask my wife as she thinks I only own one lens.)

I have purchased so many lenses in the past three years, that my wife MADE-ME write a promisory note to her, to not mention any more lens purchases for a year. So....until the end of 2016, I will have to spend only my personal allowance monies, if I find another "ESSENTIAL-PIECE-OF-GLASS. I used to say,"this one is probably the last lens I'll ever need" REALLY!!!! REALLY? no....really.... So I'm stuck out of "OUR" budget, for awhile yet.. RJM

heck!!

digit-up Loc: Flushing, Michigan

Kmgw9v wrote:

It is sharp. Great shot.

Thank you. It is a lovely little "Pentax" 35mm Macro, and it has been a lot of fun to use. Good hearing from you. As I said on other THREADS, you say little, so it means a lot. RJM

Leitz Loc: Solms

OldEarl wrote:

My 105mm f/2.8 Nikkor that I bought for $100 used and later paid a $75 to convert to aperture indexing. The reason? For a quarter century it traveled with me and saved my rep more times that I can remember.

The 105 f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor was never non-AI, what kind of conversion did you have done?

Jackdoor Loc: Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

Micro 4/3 Olympus 45mm F1.8. Faultless, and less than £200

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Dalek wrote:

This is obviously a trick question. No photographer in his/her right mind would answers this as there is no answer. One lens, are you kidding?
(Actually, ask my wife as she thinks I only own one lens.)

It might have been a semantical question. ;)

49er Loc: Applegate, Oregon

I would keep my 100x400 Canon L lens. I do lots of bird and other wild life photography and I like doing non posed shots of people, which this lens is essential for. I also do macro photography of flowers and such, and this lens works for that. I can do a little landscape photography with it, especially on my full frame camera, but that is where it is limited. This lens also is fairly sharp.

doubleg730 Loc: Illinois summer, AZ winter

I Love my Tamron 16-300, very good IQ and very versatile !

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

There are soooo many lenses I will NEVER give up

errr until one I like more comes along....