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Parents, what's your favourite and 3-5 most used lenses, and why?

Started Mar 11, 2017 | Discussions thread
mpressed Contributing Member • Posts: 950
Re: Parents, what's your favourite and 3-5 most used lenses, and why?

Pietro Marchesi wrote:

Our son is now 14, and I am quite happy with my current set up: Canon 6D and 3 lenses: 16-35f/4L IS, 24-70f/2.8L II, 70-200f/4L IS.

Very good IQ and not too heavy to bring on all our holidays and outings.

My most used people photography lenses are:

1. - 24-70f/2.8L II - Sharp, versatile and fast. The best people photography lens I have owned.

2. - 70-200f/4L IS - Love this lens, sharp, fast, versatile and lightweight.

My third lens 16-35f/4L IS is often too wide for people photography. I mostly use this great lens for architecture and landscape. IS is very useful inside large places, like old cathedrals.

What are your favourite people photography lenses to have with you all the time for family travel and general purpose usage with your family?

consider adding 2 fast primes to your mix,  you already have the bulk of the FL covered well..  i love my 50 1.4 and my 135 f2... my kids are now 21 and 24 so at a different stage of life but speed of these two primes gives you images your zooms won't... the 50 an intimate lens and cant be beat for indoor use, and the 135 is my secret weapon, years of beautiful candid "portraits" of my kids when they had no idea i was shooting from across the house or room...both just isolate and pop people off the beautiful bokeh behind them....

mp

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