Your Most Used Lens!

Most Used Lenses

  • 24-70mm 2.8L

    Votes: 13 15.9%
  • 70-200mm 2.8L

    Votes: 9 11.0%
  • 50mm's (any variety)

    Votes: 18 22.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 42 51.2%

  • Total voters
    82
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RLPhoto

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Simple Question, What is the Single Most Used lens inside you camera bag? And explain what you use it for.

My vote - 50mm 1.2L. Its Great does everything from studio work, to photojournalism, to outdoor portraits, to tight landscapes, for weddings, for fine art work, And tons of other stuff.

My 50mm is like an old friend to the frame lines in my brain.
 
24-70 2.8. That may change soon because i feel happy with how the 5DM3 tames the 50L and i just got a 24 F1.4 so two bodies two lengths, less convenient, yes, more stunning images with shallow DOF, definitely. Does that mean i dont like the 24-70, not at all friggen love it, but i am going for a more standout look now. 24-70 was 80+ % of all my shots, if i exclude sports of course. During weddings I don't want to be switching out lenses all the time, i have been down that road. At one point i had the 135 F2, 35 F1.4, 85 F1.2, 24-70, 70-200. When I got the 70-200 i got rid of the 135. Now with the 70-200 vII, I can pretty much say it is pretty much as sharp as the 135 F2 ever was at the same focal length. Anyway, i had all these lenses and i was switching things out a lot and it got to become ridiculous for wasting time, I needed to focus on shooting the wedding as it happened else i missed stuff when switching. I have since become way more efficient of course and the 24-70 was on my 1dm3 all the time while the 70-200 was on my 5d alot. The reason was i wanted to be able to use other focus points with movement and something as simple as the bride and groom walking down the aisle the 5d focus system was a major compromise.
All this said, i am trying the prime thing out again but now i have a third body I will switch things up when the needs change with a wedding. If it doesn't work as expected i know i can rely on the 24-70.
 
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