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Prime lens recommendations?

Started Jun 9, 2015 | Discussions thread
kwunyin Regular Member • Posts: 152
Re: Prime lens recommendations?

LarsRost wrote:

Paulmorgan wrote:

Firstly, what is your working budget ?

Bottom end.

Panasonic 14mm, Sigma 19mm, Olympus 45mm

Middle end.

Panasonic 14mm, Olympus 17mm, Olympus 45mm

Top end.

Olympus 12mm, Olympus 17mm, Olympus 45mm

Get the idea.

Thanks, I guess "Middle end" will fit my budget the most. Any particular reason you chose Oly 45mm instead of Pana 42.5mm? I considered the 42.5mm OIS as G7 does not have IBIS.

Kind regards
.lars

from experience, I can tell you that you don't really need 14 and 17. You can work with either or. Having both feels a bit redundant to me as they both have a similar strength, environmental portraiture/street/documentary photography. The 14 is more portable, but the 17 isn't exactly bulky. The 17 has the manual focus clutch which is awesome. Personally, I'd go with:

Samyang 7.5: Different perspective, sharp and ultra wide

Olympus 17: Street/document photography

Olympus 45: Staple portrait lens

But this is my preference. You may like rectilinear wide angle lenses more. Either way, they have distortion, so as they say: go big or go home.

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