What is your favorite lens?!?

[cdr116]

So here's the deal, I want to hear everyones favorite lens, whether it's wide-angle, macro, standard, telephoto, or anything! What is your all around favorite lens? And why?

:)

[JTL]

So here's the deal, I want to hear everyones favorite lens, whether it's wide-angle, macro, standard, telephoto, or anything! What is your all around favorite lens? And why?

:)That's like asking "Which is your favorite 'crack' rock?"! :eek:

I have about 10 favorites but would need to mortgage my existence to have them all! :D;)

Right now, I find my EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM very satisfying...but the bokeh isn't that great. So...I NEED MORE.

May I have some more lenses, please sir?

[cdr116]

That's like asking "Which is your favorite 'crack' rock?"! :eek:

I have about 10 favorites but would need to mortgage my existence to have them all! :D;)



haha ok, well then what is your favorite out of those that you own?

[JTL]

EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM

[cdifoto]

Meyer-Optik Pentacon 135mm f/2.8

[GaryS]

My favourite is whichever one has the focal length I need at that moment.

I only have two.... so that makes the choice easier. The Sigma 18-50 is my fav for indoors and general use, and the Canon 70-300IS is my fav for telephoto.

I'm happy with both of them.

[DonSchap]

Well ... when I was totin' the Canon camera bag around ... the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM was, without a doubt ... my favorite lens for everything between eight to twenty-five feet.

For anything closer ... the TAMRON SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di-II LD ... picked up the slack.

But, I have to admit ... when I wanted long ... that TAMRON SP AF 200-500mm f/5-6.3 Di LD shot very sharp and had fabulous reach. It didn't weigh all that much, but snorkeled out to 29-inches is definitely an "excuse me" lens.

[nqjudo]

I have a favorite for different situations but if I had to pick only one I would say the 300L F/4 IS. Like CDI, I love my M42 mount glass as well.

[AdamW]

That's like asking "Which is your favorite 'crack' rock?"! :eek:

The one I'm just about to smoke.


:cool:

[michaelb]

60mm macro.

I use it for just about everything; portraits, landscape and sometimes even macro! Very fast USM, well built, not too heavy, excellent colors, nice bokeh and the sharpest lens I've used thus far.

[JTL]

The one I'm just about to smoke.


:cool:I'm thinkin' that the 100-400 L or the 28-300 L, with the push/pull design, could be converted to a nice power-hitter! :eek::D;)

Those two are on my favorites list, obviously...

[D Thompson]

haha ok, well then what is your favorite out of those that you own?

If it can only be one then it's my Canon ef 24-70 f2.8 L.

Why? Because the focal range works for most of what I shoot, constant f2.8, built like a tank, and image quality that's hard to beat. Plus, if/when I go to full frame the above reasons will still apply.

[Nickcanada]

I like the 35mm 1.4 L.

[drama]

Outdoors above 70mm, Canon 70 200 F4 IS
Outdoors for landscape Canon 17 40 F4L
Indoors Sigma 30 1.4

[cwphoto]

EF 85mm f/1.2 L II USM. :)

[24Peter]

My favorites are the ones in Christian's signature. Seeing as I own none of them, it's no wonder I'm so unhappy. :(

[cwphoto]

My favorites are the ones in Christian's signature. Seeing as I own none of them, it's no wonder I'm so unhappy. :(

Yeah but you don't need them! :D

[coldrain]

I am with 24Peter. My favorite lenses are CW's 35mm f1.4 L, 50mm f1.2L, 135mm f2L, 85 f1.2 L, 180mm f3.5 L macro, 300mm f2.8 IS and 500mm f4 IS too!

[downtrodden]

Well right now i only have one lens- the 28-135 IS kit lens, so that's my favorite... but as soon as i get more lenses, i suspect my favorite will be the 50 1.2 or whatever macro lens i end up getting... So i will re-answer this question in a few months when i'm more qualified to do so!

[fractalgfx]

My favorite lens is pointed at a supermodel.

[michaelb]

My favorites are the ones in Christian's signature. Seeing as I own none of them, it's no wonder I'm so unhappy. :(
Me three. I think I take his 85L and 135L; sweeeeeet.

[droopy1592]

Toss up between my 70-300mm IS and my 50mm f/1.4.

If I could afford it, I'd buy a 24-105mm f/4

[sunnythepsychocat]

Got to be 70-200mm/f2.8 IS. You pair this puppy with any camera and you instantly make that camera 10 times better;) Well, any prime lens will do the same especially 85mm/f1.2:)