Pick your two favorite lenses

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micksh6
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Re: Pick your two favorite lenses
In reply to Jennyhappy2, 5 months ago

I have all these except 14mm which I sold recently ($160 on eBay which is almost the same price I paid). Sold 14mm because I didn't find it much better than Oly 14-42mm IIR zoom which I also have.

I'm afraid I can't help much as for me it would be too hard to pick two of them and I have to have more lenses, perhaps because I try to shoot everything.

For travel, architecture and landscapes, if I wanted to go light I would use 9-18mm zoom (for overall view) and 25mm for architecture details. 9-18mm isn't the best in optical quality but its FL range is very versalite. You probably can replace it with other zooms but they need to start from at least 12mm. IMO 14mm is not wide enough for travel, at least for me. And I also use Samyang fisheye which is great and you can do partial defishing to minimize distortion.

45mm F1.8 is irreplaceable for portraits, it's a must have lens. 75mm is a better portrait lens but only if you have right distance to subject. Perhaps you can take street candids with these too, Robin Wong did and I like his work. If I had to choose either 45mm or 75mm it would be 45mm because I would probably use it more often. But, when 75mm FL is right it will allow more stellar photos. Maybe you can skip 45mm if you get 25mm and 75mm. But IMO 45mm has better bokeh than 25mm and it's just right FL for me.

So, bottom line, I don't know how to shrink the selection. I would need these all except I'd use something wider than 14mm. If you only use primes, then 14mm or 12mm will probably work too.

Edited 5 months ago by micksh6
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