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If you could only own one lens for the rest of your life...

Started Apr 8, 2014 | Polls thread
cpkuntz
cpkuntz Senior Member • Posts: 1,003
Re: If you could only own one lens for the rest of your life...

I love primes.  I shoot with a 50mm lens on my camera most of the time.  But what is great about primes is that you can own several of them and use them in situations calling for different focal lengths.  If I was limited to only one lens for the rest of my life, that would necessitate a zoom lens.  Even a mid range zoom is rather limited for a single lens for the rest of one's life, but for me that would be the range I would go for.  24mm is just wide enough and while 70mm isn't as long as I would like, it would have to do.  Also, the f/2.8 aperture is better than the f/5.6 of the superzoom, and I don't really need the telephoto end.  I like wide angles but not enough to limit myself to an UWA zoom for the rest of my life.  So I guess this question is a bit extreme and unrealistic, of course, but given the constraint of 1 lens for the rest of my life I'd have to go with a 24-70mm f/2.8, even though I don't even own one of those!

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