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

Started Mar 11, 2017 | Discussions thread
OP Pietro Marchesi Regular Member • Posts: 266
Re: Parents, what's your favourite and 3-5 most used lenses, and why?

Interesting, a lot of love for fast primes here

For family and kids photography with my current zooms I almost only use the longer 35-50-70 part of my 24-70 zoom and use the 70-100mm part of my 70-200. The long 200mm part is used a lot for outdoor sports or wildlife and is often if not always way too short

For family and kids it is better to add 2 or 3 fast primes?

New lens kit: Keep my 16-35f/4L IS and 24-70f/2.8L II. Add a fast 35mm and/or a fast 50mm and add a 100f/2.8L IS macro. Sell my 70-200f/4L IS and buy the new 100-400f/4.5-5.6L IS II.

What full frame lenses do you prefer using to help you get the best real life kids and family photos on holidays and at home, i.e. not for any arranged portraits.

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Pietro M
Stockholm

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