what are your favorite lenses ?
here we are each one from different places & styles =] i just want to know what are your favorite lenses?
tzachmost
My favourite lens is Sigma 18-35. Versatility, sharpness, bokeh... Not a lot of lenses can beat that.
Second favorite is Canon 100L, dream of mine, but I'm working on it. I had opportunity to play with it for a bit and I've fallen in love immediately.
If I were to choose third lens, I'd go for 50mm 1.8 stm, although would prefer Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art over it, but money can be a problem.
Witek Sigma 18-35 is my favourite as well, 50mm 1.8 STM too when you need something a little bit narrower.
tzachmost Sigma is now nailing it with whole Art series. The new 85mm 1.4 is also amazing. I'm waiting for something like 24-70 or 100 macro from Sigma Art. Generally (for me) buying Sigma lenses is better now, as I want to switch to Sony a6500 in the future, so I would just buy MC-11 and wouldn't need to change my lenses (losing money in the process).
Ania Sikora Since this year it's nikkor 85mm f/1.8G. New lens in my bag, and the first one chosen by me, not by my husband ;) I love sharpness and bokeh it gaves me.
Kazzi it's a really good lens for that price.
Ania Sikora Yeah :) See what comes next ;)
Daniel Zaleski I really like Sigma 35A f1, 4 for reportage portraiture and Canon 16-35L IS f4 for landscape and cityscape. Funny, but my one lens to go with on a trip when I cannot pack big lens is the smallest lens by Canon = 40 STM f2, 8 (pancake).
Satoshi T My favorite is Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro(without IS). When I shoot macros, I can create a very wide range of DOF(f/2.8-f/32). and the designer has excellent short range correction for this lens, the shape is not distorted and chromatic aberration hardly occurs. I use it almost all of my "Bye-bye last week" series.
Kazzi
From which I'm using? I don't have a favourite, love my 17, 25 and 45 f/1.8 (35-50-90 FF equivalent) combo equally.
But the "lens of my dreams" and first thing I'll buy when I win million dollars on a lottery, is Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D (the old version). And it's not because of it's optics, it's the look, the metallic feeling, that powder coating of focus ring... <3
It's not a reasonable love ;)
Michael Gatton 85 1.8 for portraits. I have Canon, love this lens.
Szymon Pytel samyang 21mm 1.4 and 85 1.4 mm
Tomasz Wiśniewski I don't think I have a favourite amongst the ones I own - my Tokina 11-16 is cool when it comes to reportages and landscapes but it's only cool, not spectacular. I'd really love to try out the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 art lens, I kinda fell in love with it after seeing tons of images shot with it on lookslikefilm. There's a problem though, in order to get the desired results I probably need to switch to a full frame camera...
Kazzi jump by my store with Your canon, we'll fit that Sigma for a little shootout.
Tomasz Wiśniewski I'm up!
Marcin N Woźniak
All time favorite: Nikon E 50mm f/1.8 from 1980 or 1981 (I don't remember). Great manual supersharp lens.
Another is Kaleinar 100mm f/2.8 from mid '80s, replica of legendary Nikon lens.
But at this moment, my favorite is Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8. Small, portable, very sharp from f/2.8 to the end of the scale, and I love its field of view - really liking this length (40mm equivalent).
Rafal
for walks Canon 70-200 mm f/2.8 L USM
for nature Sigma 150-600 mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sport
for lanscape Sigma 10-20 f/3.5 EX DC HSM
EdKo Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50mm 1:1.2 by Asahi is my favourite
Jakub Irix 15 mm f/2,4 and Nikkor 28 mm f/1,8
Richard Morwood
My $100 Canon 75-300mm f4-5.6 I (that's a mark 1, not an L)
No image stabilization, blurry when zooming above 200mm, loads of chromatic aberration, mega extender when zooming, slow to focus, and very much so wants the focus point to be re-calibrated but can't because the D1000 doesn't support it.
But I'll be damned if using it hasn't taught me to truly understand "it's not about the gear", though I can't wait to upgrade
Romain
I don't have a favourite one... it depends on what I would like to photograph... This means have have to think twice when I go out to take pictures about which lens(es) I have to take with me...
So I have for my Sony A77M2...
for macro : an old 105mm Sigma F2.8
for UW pictures : 10-20mm Sigma F3.5
for all-round : 17-50mm F2.8 Sigma and 50mm F1.4 Sony
for distance and portrait : a very old 70-200mm F4 Minolta beercan.
for distance and travelling ; 55-300mm F4.5-5.6 Sony (I use this one rarely)
Gogi Golzman
for me its a very hard question, cause i busted my ass for great lenses.
in my artillery i have:
sigma 15mm 2.8
sigma 35mm 1.4 art
sigma 50mm 1.4 art
canon 85mm 1.8
canon 135mm 2.0L
i guess the most favorite is the 50mm 1.4
but i love them all!!! :)
tzachmost Gimme that Sigmas right away! Great choice :D
Tomasz Wiśniewski oh how I envy you Gogi...
Gogi Golzman Hahaha
Gogi Golzman I really workd hard for them.. but they are not only for the project.. i work profesionally as well :)
Kazzi I'll be waiting for You to sell that over twenty years old optical design 85/1.8 and buy new Sigma 85/1.4 Art, which is - by far - the sharpest lens I've ever seen (including Otus lenses - but the differences are like between Bugatti Veyron and it's competitors)
FlyteWizard I love my Canon 40mm Prime Lens. Love it. I think it helps me achieve the look I want from my photos.
Jakub Kwiatkowski @FlyteWizard I have the same! I love it! :)
BloodMan I love Canon EF 50mm f1.4, but i dream about Canon EFS 10-22mm f3.5 ;)
Kazzi forget the 10-22, dream about Sigma 10-20 f/3.5 EX.
Marcin N Woźniak Last few days I spent in a professional studio and there I discovered how great lens is my kit lens: Fujinon XF 18-55 f/2.8-4 OIS. You can see on my few last photos how sharp and perfect it is :)
Kazzi yup. Fuji makes really great lenses, and even "kit" 18-55 is insanely good. they also have XC 16-50 f/3.5-5.6, the "cheap kit", which might not be as good, but it's got a very interesting optical design: wide-angle is quite sharp, from edge to edge (without local maximum in the middle) while the other end is much sharper in the middle than on the edges. I've never seen something like this before and I love it about that lens...
...even though I don't use Fuji gear ;)
Damian Jankowiak I reccomend you to try Fujinon 35mm F/2. Great lens.
Marcin N Woźniak
I have it, but it is to wide to use in studio and not as wide as I like for any other kinds of photography :)
Just not my length :)
Jakub Kwiatkowski basically for portrait I like my 85mm f/1.8, then for special shoot at home 40mm f/2.8
Łukasz Szóstak Canon 50mm f/1.8 !
Kazzi whole photographic world is waiting for Sigma 24-70 ART OS version ;) but about the macro - sigma does have 105mm Macro OS EX and there is an L lens, you know, with the red stripe... and they're both INSANE. So about 100mm macro - You don't have to wait.
Damian Jankowiak At the moment Fujinon XF 35mm F/2. Great quality, shaprness, I love it !
Ewa Kudlaty I have few but best of the best is Canon 70-200 mm f/2.8 L and Sigma 85 mm f/1.4
Gogi Golzman i'm a prime lens guy .. but you are so right .. the 70-200 is truly amazing
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Dominik Ropela My love is nikor f/1.8 50mm