What is your Least Used Piece of Gear?

[mackguyver]

Okay, one more -

What is your least used piece of gear, or pieces of gear?

Mine: my 430EX and 580EXIII Speedlites. I love natural light and use my Lastolite reflectors/diffusers or Einsteins most of the time I need to add or modify light.

 

[Click]

Humm, I'm going to say, my Sekonic light meter.

 

[mackguyver]

Humm, I'm going to say, my Sekonic light meter.

I could see that - histograms and having more than 36 exposures on a "roll" has certainly spoiled us...

 

[Click]

I agree

 

[tomscott]

50mm 1.8 followed by my 40D and 17-55mm.

 

[Don Haines]

Humm, I'm going to say, my Sekonic light meter.

YES!!!!!

that said, I used it last night

 

[dancook]

If it doesn't get used enough, I usually sell it on. I've bought and sold the MP-E 65mm + MT24-EX multiple times.

Currently the 40mm 2.8 pancake lens is least used, it was bought as a step into street photography with my DSLR - but now I prefer to use my 35mm 1.4 which is considerably larger.

My Wife does like the 40mm 2.8 - I might hang onto it.

 

[Dylan777]

Okay, one more -

What is your least used piece of gear, or pieces of gear?

Mine: my 430EX and 580EXIII Speedlites. I love natural light and use my Lastolite reflectors/diffusers or Einsteins most of the time I need to add or modify light.

I'm like natural light too. My Speedlites are least used.

 

[Lee Jay]

17-40L.

I bought it in 2004 (before EF-s) as a normal zoom for my 10D. I thought I'd love it when I got my 5D, but time had intervened. To get a wide-angle on the 10D (again, before EF-s) I had purchased a Sigma 15mm fisheye. Well, the fish is on my 5D perhaps 100 times as much as the 17-40L. When I need a normal zoom, I use the 24-105 on the 5D and the crop camera (now a 20D) is used primarily with the 70-200. Once in a great while I'll use the 17-40L. It's still a great lens with great optics and great handling and AF. It's just that I like all my other options better.

 

[tolusina]

My Nikons............

 

[AcutancePhotography]

Humm, I'm going to say, my Sekonic light meter.

I would agree. I am glad I have it and occasionally it has been of use, but mostly it just sits there looking sad.

 

[docsmith]

Of gear that I intend to be part of my active kit....EF 40 mm f/2.8 pancake.

 

[3kramd5]

Battery grips.

 

[sama]

my Elan 7 (bought in 2002) and AE 1 program with some FD lenses..

 

[mackguyver]

Of gear that I intend to be part of my active kit....EF 40 mm f/2.8 pancake.

I bought the lens, played with it for about 15 minutes and didn't touch it again until two months later when I sold it. It's a fine lens - it just didn't fit into my life.

 

[dppaskewitz]

My 50 1.4. I tend to use the 24-105 more often. When I want to go smallish, it's the 40 pancake.

 

[Besisika]

Humm, I'm going to say, my Sekonic light meter.

I could see that - histograms and having more than 36 exposures on a "roll" has certainly spoiled us...

You might still need it when shooting products/tabletop with complicated lighting setup.

I am not using my color checker passport anymore.

 

[lo lite]

Okay, one more -

What is your least used piece of gear, or pieces of gear?

That one is easy. Nowadays it's my EOS 33 (I think you call those an EOS Elan 7 in the states) when it comes to Canon gear. If I also consider other gear it is my Praktica MTL 5 B which I bought in 1985 from the money I got for my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugendweihe . I kept uisng the Praktica up to 2002 when I finally got my EOS 33 which I used until I got my 5DMkII.

O.k. That was probably not what you wanted to hear. The Lens I use the least is my Sigma 50/1.4 DG EX followed by the Sigma 70-200/2.8 EX (pre DG version, no OS). I am much more a wide angle than tele guy. Hence the old zoom (from EOS 33 days)

 

[BL]

Photo backpack. It just sits in the closet because it's too cumbersome to shoot out of, and I never find myself in a position to carry everything I own.

 

[pablo]

My Sigma 70mm f2.8 Macro.

It's a belting lens, just it's one more to carry, when my 18-50 f2.8 actually gets close enough for me in most situations (1:3 and then the 1.6x crop) but it delivers on the very rare occassion when I need to get closer yet.