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What is your holy trinity pf primes?

Started Mar 24, 2015 | Discussions thread
cameron2 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,142
Re: 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.

This is a tough one. I'd definitely include the Panasonic 25mm 1.4, and I'd definitely include the Olympus 75mm. Depending on the day, I'd include either the Panasonic 45mm or the Panasonic 42.5mm (or both ...). But that leaves the wide end of the spectrum completely uncovered. While the 20mm has never done me wrong, it also has never made me feel like I can't live without it, and thus it doesn't tend to stay on the camera for very long. Similarly the 14mm. I think I need to try the Olympus 12mm, 17mm and the Panasonic 15mm to see if one of those grabs me.

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