What is your holy trinity pf primes?

C Sean wrote:

It doesn't have to be all primes, say you have a wide angle zoom instead of a prime.

Here is mine.

15mm 1.7

Originally my trinity used to consist of Panasonic 14mm and the 20mm. Both of these lenses worked very well together and very often traveled together. The 15mm 1.7 captured a lot of their strengths and you could say the 15mm is the love child of the 14mm and the 25mm.

25mm 1.4

Now the 20mm is only used for indoor shots for rare occasions, I have space in my pocket/bag for additionial lens and the 25mm 1.4 get my use for it speed and it completely different focal length.

45mm 2.8

Part macro, part portrait lens. Another lens from the Pana/Lecia featuring the duo personality disorder. I could of gone for the Olympus but I wanted the Macro as an extra instead of speed/macro. Even when the new 42mm 1.7 comes out, I most likely ignore it.

One thing is the best primes, another is which ones get most used.

For me, my best primes are the 20 1.7, Rokinon 7.5 and Micro Nikkor 55mm 2.8. Although, they are not my most used lenses.

20mm is indeed my most used lens ever, and is the one I put my camera in the bag with, but I also use the 14mm quite a lot, specially when I want an even smaller and lighter profile (street shooting with buildings and places, more than people), and then I simply step up to the 40-150mm for anything that I might need longer reach.

Although the 40-150 is not a prime, is in fact, at least my copy, as good as a collection of primes.

The 7.5 is more a special effects lens, and the 55mm is specific for macro, although it can be used for regular photography, I prefer the 40-150 for the AF.

I'm looking forward for the Sigma 60mm 2.8. I've only heard amazing stories from it, and is dead cheap.