Quote:What set would be ideal ?
Hi Toni,
this is quite obviously the wrong question!
What is (eventually) ideal to me, might be next to
worthless for you.
For a while (still in analog times) I used a 35+85 set ...
and I was really happy with that ... then I started to
change my interests ... so the 35mm were not wide
enough ... and so on.
There is no such thing as an "ideal" setup ... best you
can do is having a good setup for a certain purpose.
If you need more than three primes, you are usually
better off with zooms.
But since I'm a bit of a gearhead ... I do have two
collections of primes ... and a set of zooms.
1) Primes for 'nostalgic' days (all manual)
- Tamron 17/3.5 (Adaptall)
- Voigtlaender 20/3.5 (replaced the 17mm more or less)
- Zeiss 45/2.8 (C/F)
- Tamron 90/2.5 (Adaptall)
- Tamron 180/2.5 (Adaptall)
2) Primes for 'normal' use
- EF 24/1.4
- EF 50/1.2
- EF 85/1.8
- EF 135/2
3) Zooms for 'whenever'
- Tokina 10-17
- EF 17-40/4
- EF 24-105/4
- Tamron 28-75/2.8
- EF 100-400
But usually I never have more than two (eventually three)
lenses with me.
Does this help? ... I guess not ... because the selection of lenses
depends on "you" (not on "me" or on the lenses themselves).
Just my 2cts ... Rainer