What Digital Camera and Lens Would You Choose if You Could Have Only One?
Jul 8, 2020 07:32:27 #
Ain't getting rid of anything back to the family Kodak and a 1965 version Polaroid.
When I travel if I take only one camera and one lens it is D4s (like it better than my D5)
and Nikkor 70-200 f 2.8.
When I travel if I take only one camera and one lens it is D4s (like it better than my D5)
and Nikkor 70-200 f 2.8.
Jul 8, 2020 08:27:42 #
Jul 8, 2020 08:54:19 #
Paul Diamond wrote:
Cameras and lenses are like canvas and paint brushes to the artist.
One camera? D850 - versatile, capable, growth potential.
One lens? - Never.
One camera? D850 - versatile, capable, growth potential.
One lens? - Never.
The whole idea of interchangeable lenses? but dust on sensors in the digital age spoilt the idea somewhat - so perhaps the Sony R1 was the way to go after all - superb in every way - bit heavy though.
However - avoiding dusty sensors sold more cameras - (one for each lens is not so unusual).
Jul 8, 2020 10:38:29 #
mikegreenwald
Loc: Illinois
Longshadow wrote:
Canon 5D Mark IV with the 24-105L.
Me too, but it’s a supposition contrary to fact, fortunately.
Jul 8, 2020 12:25:22 #
Jul 8, 2020 14:24:08 #
If I had to get rid of all my cameras and lenses I'd keep the Pentax 645Z with the 55mm f2.8 autofocus lens. Best camera I own.
Jul 8, 2020 15:14:41 #
Delderby wrote:
........
........call dedicated cameras "camera cameras" 
........call dedicated cameras "camera cameras"
Good thought but we always abbreviate everything ... like “phone cam”. We can have “phone cam” and “ded cam”. Let’s rename UHH to be DCS, the “Ded Cam Society”. The whole industry is heading there anyway .....
Jul 8, 2020 15:37:50 #
I'm curious if any of you make a surprising choice when you stop to think about it. I'm anxious to read what you would do.[/quote]
I'm still stuck on my Canon 5Dc. Lens? Probably a 50mm. Or maybe a really loooong zoom. Would that 35-350 fit? Harry
I'm still stuck on my Canon 5Dc. Lens? Probably a 50mm. Or maybe a really loooong zoom. Would that 35-350 fit? Harry
Jul 8, 2020 16:23:57 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
Thanks to all who have participated. It looks like there were a couple of tight knot groups who settled in on a couple of cameras and a couple of lenses each and then a big group of folks with individual ideas.
I earlier mentioned that it was an easy choice to get down to either the D850 or the D500, but the choice between the two of them was much tougher. Based on some 'workshop' shooting I've been doing in the back yard during evening hours for the past week, I'm still vacillating, but considering changing my choice. I still don't think it's life or death either way, but I've found a couple of camera-straining situations that just might prompt me to change in favor of the D850.
I earlier mentioned that it was an easy choice to get down to either the D850 or the D500, but the choice between the two of them was much tougher. Based on some 'workshop' shooting I've been doing in the back yard during evening hours for the past week, I'm still vacillating, but considering changing my choice. I still don't think it's life or death either way, but I've found a couple of camera-straining situations that just might prompt me to change in favor of the D850.
Jul 8, 2020 16:33:30 #
hrblaine wrote:
I'm curious if any of you make a surprising choice when you stop to think about it. I'm anxious to read what you would do.
I'm still stuck on my Canon 5Dc. Lens? Probably a 50mm. Or maybe a really loooong zoom. Would that 35-350 fit? Harry[/quote]
Go with the 50mm. Your viewers will always spend extra time on your images, puzzling over how you managed to render your scenes and subjects so “lifelike”. Go way beyond Cartier-Bresson. Get with Mme. Tussauds !
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Viewers see exaggerated perspective and excessive f/1.2 bokeh as merely ordinary boring “camera vision” images. Only photo geeks find those exciting cuz they know that crazy perspective or ridiculous bokeh are evidence of exotic optics. Civilians just see it as robot vision, same stuff as the back-up camera image they see on their dashboard screen.
But normal, believable, realistic images speak to viewers “where they live”. They say to the viewer “Hey, you’ve seen this sorta stuff in your routine daily life ... but did you ever slow down and reeeeally LOOK at it ?
Jul 8, 2020 17:26:35 #
Currently have D7100, D750 and Z7 with multiple Nikon lenses. Only one choice would be the Z7 with the Z 24-70 lens or the 14-30 lens.
Jul 8, 2020 19:17:20 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
User ID wrote:
Go with the 50mm. Your viewers will always spend e... (show quote)
While taking a picture in Scotland, where I was taking the picture from a lower angle of view, I was asked by a gentleman walking by what I was taking a photo of. I showed he that the very narrow but beautiful flower gardens in front of each house, each with it's short picket fence at the sidewalk, presented a contrasting situation with the the row after row of well kept but much more "plain Jane" colors of the houses. He agreed with me and stated that he had been walking that route for ten years and hadn't really taken the time to notice that.
All of us forget to just really look from time to time. It is our job as photographers to actually notice the story that is always around us.
Jul 8, 2020 19:45:16 #
wdross wrote:
While taking a picture in Scotland, where I was ta... (show quote)
Love all my treks around Scotland. I said above that my 61mp Sony A7RIV camera and my Sony 135mm f1.8 GM lens would be my choice if i could have only one. That 135mm GM is just stunning. But certainly either of my Sony 24-105mm f4 lens or my Sigma Art 24-70mm f2.8 lens would be a better all around choice especially for those great vistas in Scotland. Cheers
Jul 8, 2020 20:44:42 #
Jul 9, 2020 09:33:33 #
BobT
Loc: southern Minnesota
I would choose a Panasonic GX85 camera for it's smaller/lighter size and double IS capabilities along with a Panny 14-140mm lens. That would do me for almost anything I would care to shoot, except maybe sports and other fast action stuff.
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