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Your everyday lens
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This exactly. I used my original flavor Tamron 17-50 2.8 on my D50 and now my D300 and couldn't be happier with the results. It's the sharpest lens I've ever used and I've used the Canon 24-70 2.8 on an older 20D.
Canon or nikon? 3rd party or native?
I just ordered a siggy 50 for the 5d2...taking chances!
The Nikon 18-300mm doesn't exist although I'm sure that it's on someone's wish list.
I think he probably meant the 18-200. I'm considering this lens for my D90 - any feedback on it?
I can't speak for the 28-300 mm, but I shoot the 18-200 mm exclusively on a Nikon D7000 and I love it. It is a rather large, heavy, expensive lens but I have found very few situations where it did not work well for me.
The only other lens I am seriously considering in the future is the 70-200 mm zoom, primarily for its low light performance as I do a lot of theatrical photography and I frequently need to push the D7000 to fairly high ISO using the 18-200 mm.
I haven't shot with either so I can't say. The 18-200mm is DX and the 28-300mm is FX. You'll definitely get more range with the 28-300mm, but I don't like variable apertures on my lenses.
Well done! My sigma 50 1.4 is one of my sharpest lenses. It's my only non L-lens, and yet it feels as strong and performs as beautifully.
Congrats on the purchase and have fun shooting!
My 35mm 1.4 Leica M Summilux lens. If I could bring and use only one lens, this would be it; it is a fantastic lens, very fast, incredibly sharp, very forgiving, and extremely portable. Since I bought it, I have noticed that this is the lens I use most of the time.
Yes, it is.
Ahem. I have had a rather well paid job for most of the past two years, which has allowed me (among other things) to buy a Leica M6, (so I still use film), and several (Leica) lenses with it.
I enjoyed adding slowly to it over the two years, but I didn't dare take it with me abroad, as I worked (and work) in a rather unstable part of the world, where rapid repatriation was not an unknown possibility and the thought of being evacuated at very short notice while having to leave that type of glass behind for which one paid serious money would have been a source of exquisite pain.
So, I only picked up the camera and two of the lenses this year when I took a holiday, the summilux 50 and the summilux 35. The 35 blew me away - it is incredibly sharp and utterly forgiving. One of the things I have long wanted - coming from light deprived northern Europe - was a fast (low light) lens; this thing can shoot (wide open, granted, but that is why I bought it) inside Gothic cathedrals (without a flash) and the photographs come out sharp, and clear and perfect ..
24-70 mm f 2.8 if I'm taking just one lense. If not I take them all, as you never know what you will be shooting when your me!
Not good for your back (see sig for details).
Not good for your back (see sig for details).
One other thing I'll add; there is what you have termed 'expensive' money and there is silly money.
So, I now have a serious collection of Leica glass, built up over the past two years - most of which I have yet to even get to try out. However, it was all bought 'used' from an authorised Leica dealer, as was the camera. Now, this is still 'expensive' - it just isn't stratospheric; and I can always sell back what I decide I will not require.
Some of this was opportunistic buying - I already had bought a Summicron, as the 'default' lens that everyone had recommended, when the summiluxes turned up. Precisely because I have longed all my life to be able to shoot flawlessly in low light - and play with available light and not be hobbled by circumstances - (rain, bleak, charcoal coloured skies, light deprivation in northern Europe), I leapt at the Summiluxes when they becomes available.
Anyway, the point of this thread was to highlight the 'one' lens; I had assumed that with primes, it would have been one of the 50mm lenses; no, the 1.4 35mm will be the very last Leica lens that I get rid of. It is phenomenal, just wonderful; and it renders people superbly, too.