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Too many lenses?

Started Mar 20, 2018 | Discussions thread
wpstl Senior Member • Posts: 1,251
Re: Too many lenses?
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markyboy81 wrote:

A little while back I had got into the habit of lenses for this system, and at one point nearly had them all. Thankfully I saw sense and sold some that I wasn't using much (16mm,20mm,12-24mm, 50-200mm and samyang 12mm).

I'm still left with a fair few lenses, many of which don't seem to get used that much. For example the 16-50mm is more or less glued to the nx1 and I tend to use the nx500 with the 30mm when I need to go compact or else the pz 16-50mm when I'm shooting video.

I'd like to make use if my other lenses more but often space is an issue and changing lenses is a bit of a pain.

What are your experiences. By the way, I'm not a pro and mostly take photos of my kids,although I'd like to improve my photography skills and widen my subject type .

I have all of them and plan to keep all of them. I considered selling the 50-200 but I like it when I'm going light and I'm quite surprised at how good my copy is. For a "kit" lens it's awfully good and I have no qualms about using it when I need a telephoto in my light bag.

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