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Batis 18/2.8 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1243591-REG/zeiss_2136_691_batis_18mm_f_2_8_lens.html $1500 and nearly the size of the GM, albeit half the weight. Though currently on sale for ...

Zoom: Tamron 28-75 Prime: Samyang 35/2.8 Sony 35/1.8 Zeiss 55/1.8

Very broadly speaking, and no doubt I'll get interesting replies listing the exceptions, when E-mount first came out, Zeiss (aka Zony) was the "Excellent lens" brand, which was then later ...

Personally... The 16-35/2.8 beats out the 17-28/2.8 as "the one museum lens" and I find myself using both ends a lot. I probably don't miss 16, I definitely miss 28-35 on an admittedly much heavier ...

And that specific use case is "Boy does this thing get moderately heavy after 5 or 6 hours".

Insurance doesn't replace your stuff at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Or put 24 miles of wear on your knees getting back to the cool photo spot.

So I'm 6'5", use an A7R III with Peak Design Slide, and on backpacks use Capture Clips.  That gives me two points of contact, the Capture Clip, and the neck strap. When I'm walking around shooting ...

The Slide Straps are multi-layered.  You can cut them, but if they wear through they wear through to a different color. With that said, it's not an amazing strap, and I wish it was 6 inches longer ...

Exactly my problem.  I grab 2 lenses on any given day, and I'd rather have a 16-35 + 85 or a 21 + 24-105. /Or heck, when traveling, 16-35 + 24-105.

OK, this is ridiculously cropped, but hey, Instagram!

I'm literally sticking with Sony instead of moving to Nikon FF because Sony has that lens. /Canon also has that lens, but I don't like the bodies much.

I use the 24-105/4 because it has 70-105 and mountains are all the way over there.  At some point, I should probably get a telephoto, but they're big and heavy and ~$2500, so for now I'll just ...

That was exactly it.  I need a museum, night, and street lens, and that means it need to be fast, wide, and reasonably flexible. 16-35/4 isn't fast enough.  That last stop is the marginal museum ...

Mountains. You can't zoom from a hiking path, you can't zoom with your feet for miles on end. If I'm going anywhere near mountains or water, 24-105 is my goto.  Bring the 16-35GM as well if I'm ...

Two things are simultaneously true. 1) Even if it is a touch flat, the 24-105 is THE single lens for E-mount. It's wide, it's long, it's not terribly slow, it's not terribly heavy. Especially if ...

Yeah, it's basically a GM lens that's actually a prime. Now I've got the Samyang 35/2.8 if I wanted to be subtle and light, but then the question becomes "If I want to be at f/1.4, what's 400 grams ...

So I'm doing a Zion/Grand Canyon/Vegas trip in October, and want to pick up a night lens that's a little bit faster and at least slightly lighter than the f/2.8 on my 16-35 GM. My 4 options are: th ...

That would require that I take pictures of people. But 105 f/4 at a portrait distance will definitely get you some bokeh.  It won't be as insane as the 85/1.4, but on the other hand, the 105/4 ...

This is 60mm, but the only one I had on this laptop.  105 would only improve.

So for the record, I took mine up Half Dome, which was about the heaviest thing I'd really want to take up Half Dome, if that makes any sense? Dynamic Range is a problem, base image quality is ...