What was your most used lens for 2021?
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[quote=CHG_CANON]If you filter and count your images with 2021 shooting dates in Lightroom, what surprises do you find? Do you use your own usage statistics to plan to sell unused lenses / cameras? Or maybe, to change the lenses you'll use more in 2022?
Canon 50mm 1.8 or 35mm 2.0 are most used. My first digital, a Canon 40D lives in a drawer in my office. FF only now!
I've never sold anything, doubt if I ever will. Too much trouble for too litle $$. I'm 90, I don't wrap stuff up and take it to the post office.
I've given things away though. Locally. Mostly lens but here and there a body. (For example, when I went digital, I gave away my 35mm cameras, including my first, a Voightlander that I got through the PX in Korea. Took a lot of pics of bombed out places, Korean kids and whores with it. Bombed places and kids mostly in villages, whores mostly in Seoul.) Harry
Canon 50mm 1.8 or 35mm 2.0 are most used. My first digital, a Canon 40D lives in a drawer in my office. FF only now!
I've never sold anything, doubt if I ever will. Too much trouble for too litle $$. I'm 90, I don't wrap stuff up and take it to the post office.
I've given things away though. Locally. Mostly lens but here and there a body. (For example, when I went digital, I gave away my 35mm cameras, including my first, a Voightlander that I got through the PX in Korea. Took a lot of pics of bombed out places, Korean kids and whores with it. Bombed places and kids mostly in villages, whores mostly in Seoul.) Harry
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Sidwalkastronomy
Loc: New Jersey Shore
On my 2 Canon crop sensor camera, 77d, and T7i, I use my 18-135 combo the most. Bought a Tamron 10-24 that is a real treat for a walk around lens on the other body that doesn't have the 18-135. Starting to use more of my 150-600 Tamron for widlife
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JD750 wrote:
I didn't include my phone because I use my phone camera a lot for work, and I did not want to count that as part of my personal photography.
If I had included the phone camera, it would have been 3rd from the top of the most used lenses.
If I had included the phone camera, it would have been 3rd from the top of the most used lenses.
Since I included my 85 then I also had to include my phone. Reason is that I don’t normally use the 85 much at all but this thread asks about a specific year and so that would include an unusual multi-multi session project that involves thousands of frames and heavy use of the 85.
Another abnormality of 2021 was several months where my cameras not accessible to so I messed with the phone waaaaaay more than is normal for me.
So the 85 and phone normally don’t get much play, but 2021 was very distinctly abnormal so I have no doubt about how to answer the poll for this specific year.
Dec 28, 2021 15:18:58 #
H2Photography
Loc: NE, TX, SD, GO, AZ
Same here, 28-300 on Nikon D810...24-70 and 70-200 seldom see the light of day.
Dec 28, 2021 15:32:10 #
H2Photography wrote:
Same here, 28-300 on Nikon D810...24-70 and 70-200 seldom see the light of day.
Ahhh ! You rely on the 24-70 and 70-200 after dark cuz the 28-300 is too slow.
Dec 28, 2021 16:25:37 #
[quote=CHG_CANON]If you filter and count your images with 2021 shooting dates in Lightroom, what surprises do you find? Do you use your own usage statistics to plan to sell unused lenses / cameras? Or maybe, to change the lenses you'll use more in 2022?
Personally, when I sort / filter my 2021 statistics in Lightroom, I see have still have a lot of culling to do from the November travel and multiple architecture boat tours in Chicago in August. Picking the exact total winner isn't possible yet. What I do note, though, is a better and more equal distribution of lens usage through 2021.
Usage, that's really the idea of this annual review of images and lenses used. I don't own any lenses, (nor cameras) that are not actively being used. Most, of course, are not every day / every month. But all are now being used to create 'keeper' images every year. It is this annual review of usage that helped me a few years ago to get rid of underused equipment and to push a few lenses off the shelf and back onto camera bodies for more active use.
CanonEF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Personally, when I sort / filter my 2021 statistics in Lightroom, I see have still have a lot of culling to do from the November travel and multiple architecture boat tours in Chicago in August. Picking the exact total winner isn't possible yet. What I do note, though, is a better and more equal distribution of lens usage through 2021.
Usage, that's really the idea of this annual review of images and lenses used. I don't own any lenses, (nor cameras) that are not actively being used. Most, of course, are not every day / every month. But all are now being used to create 'keeper' images every year. It is this annual review of usage that helped me a few years ago to get rid of underused equipment and to push a few lenses off the shelf and back onto camera bodies for more active use.
CanonEF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Dec 28, 2021 16:33:14 #
Probably, my 90mm Schneider-Kreuznach.
--Bob
--Bob
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