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Would you bother with the 12mm F2, 17mm f1.8 or 45mm f1.8 if you had the 12-40 f2.8 Pro?

Started Jan 20, 2016 | Questions thread
Johnny The Greek Regular Member • Posts: 251
Re: Would you bother with the 12mm F2, 17mm f1.8 or 45mm f1.8 if you had the 12-40 f2.8 Pro?

I already have the Panasonic 25mm 1.4. My next lens will be the 12-40mm to cover the wider end of things. I'm not particularly interested in any of the wide angle primes (12mm, 15mm, 17mm). My favorite out of those 3 would be the 15mm, but I'm not too fond of that focal length. So what I'll do instead is to get one or two primes to cover the longer side of things.

I'm thinking the Olympus 45mm and Sigma 60mm would fit the bill. I love their rendering from the pictures I've seen. Plus, they're very inexpensive and light to boot.

In total, one zoom, three primes. I'll mix and match them depending on the intended use.

Well people go on about their 'three prime sets" but the fact is they are so light and readily affordable that you could bring six wherever you go and not complain too much.

I have all the Olympus primes except for the 75mm which my Sigma 60 has sort of replaced. The 17mm now gets the most use even though I don't rate it as high as any of my other primes. If Oly comes out with an f1.2 17mm lens that improves on the quality of the f1.8, I wil buy it in a second. I think the 35mm (or thereabouts) field of view suits my sense of perspective best.

For stars, I've found the samyang 7.5mm the best lens.

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Olympus PEN E-PM2 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm F4-5.6 R Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm F1.8 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12mm 1:2 +10 more
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