[Closed] Camera dudes. Just one focal length lens. No zooms.

To be glib and to paraphrase, the one lens I'd use is the one on the camera I have with me.

I still use huuuuge lenses for a living but if I had the choice for fluffing around it'd be a 28mm, although I'd rather have a 24 1.4 a 50 1.2 and a 135f2.

Never actually owned a zoom.

35mm seems to be the length that suits me (35mm film) - I use a f/1.4, and a f/2.8 point-and-shoot.

I have a 15mm f/4.5 (not a fisheye).  I've had some nice shots with it, and enjoy that pretty much everything is in focus, but I find it really hard to use - never really got the hang of it.

I still use huuuuge lenses for a living but if I had the choice for fluffing around it’d be a 28mm, although I’d rather have a 24 1.4 a 50 1.2 and a 135f2.

Got to choose just one for this game...

I'm not much good at photography but really like my 50mm      Nikon I got at Christmas, never used anything like it before. When I used to take photos at work it was always a 300 mm, I used to love my Pentax me super with a motorwind, still had it in my bag when everyone else was carting eos's about.

A 28mm then.

50mm, and nice and fast. Currently though I'm loving the 85mm Samyang on my 5D mk2.

Just thinking about this and I use a 400mm for about 70% of everything I shoot, I'd just have to step back a bit for the other 30%.

I did have a dSLR everything from 10mm to 420mm but now use a camera with a fixed 23mm lens (APS-C sized sensor so about 35mm in film terms)

Back when I used film, I had a pair of Contax 139 Quartz bodies, with a 24mm Vivitar, 35-70mm Tamron and 70-210mm Tamron, with the Zeus’s 50mm f1.2 T* supplied lens. If I absolutely had to choose one, it’d be the  Zeiss 50mm. When it came out, a number of magazines were so impressed with its performance it was used as the benchmark lens for all their testing, and it was a lovely lens. I’ve still got one body and the 50mm...

85mm f1.8

I shoot landscapes in the Lakes (mostly at the moment).  I like the stack effect of a telephoto - but wouldn't want to go too big for a single lens.  I stitch panos from them to get the field of view I want.

I keep thinking I should upgrade from the 1.8 to something a little faster - the Sigma Art 1.4 is looking tempting.

Nikkor 35mm f2 I’ve used since the days of film, now back to full-frame on D800. It got a bit less use when I had DX sensors, when I used a 28mm instead. Very comfortable/natural focal length for me, and that particular lense has great character.

Can I have multiple cameras each with a different lens?

If not probably (with the zoom exclusion) a 35.

However my current lenses go from 10 to 450 (multiplied out by non full frame).

28 (with a 21mm converter in my pocket).

I use a nikon 35mm f1.8 a lot, its lovely and sharp.

non enthusiasts always mention how nice the pictures are, which is usually a good sign.

And it wasn’t expensive.

It's a question that needs to be prefaced with 'full frame equivalent' as so many variants in sensor size makes the raw number pretty meaningless.

Nikon DX sensor here and my two primes are 49mm and 70mm equivalent. But currently I'm all about landscape and use a Sigma 10-20mm 3.5 (so 14-28mm equivalent) 90% of the time so I guess it would be something around 20mm equivalent if I had to choose just one prime.

Nikkor 24mm f2 is my favourite. Will teach you careful composition. I always wanted a fixed compact with this focal length, but nobody dared go wider than 28, and most were 35. Think there was a faster 1.8 too, but my FM and 24 f2 is great in the hand, completely manual and not too big to carry.

35 probably. I still have an Olympus XA somewhere which was a great little camera to carry everywhere.

Since I put the Canon 24mm pancake lens on mine I’ve barely taken it off. The camera has also got a lot more use....

its just so small!!!

Nikkor 50mm f1.8. It seems to do everything well.

Fuji X 23mm f1.4 (35mm equivalent)

35/f2.0 Zuiko

35mm f1.2, had the L on a canon 5D and it was just a fabulous, never miss, lens.

Used a Voigtlander 35 f1.2 on my sony A7 for a few years, could produce nice results but a bit ‘quirky’

Would really like the same from Leica on an M digital body. If someone would like to get that for me, I’d be delighted 🙂

Given I like my Nikon 50mm is it worth getting a 35mn f1.8 as well. Just general messing around photography with a D5300, the cost (£170 ish) isn't a factor just whether there's any point

The 50mm will be like a 75mm (full frame) on the D5300; the 35mm will be like a 50mm. If the money isn’t an issue then I’d say get the 35mm and see how you get in with it. A new focal length always teaches you something...

Cheers managed to order one for £125

using my 85mm f1.4 a lot at the moment, have the 135f2 but that will be up for sale as the 85mm does me better.

just one? gotta be the nifty 50.

'just one? gotta be the nifty 50.'

Which of course for most people without a full frame - won't be a 50.

50mm 2.8/ 75mm equivalent on a sigma merrill DP3.

i have lots of camera equipment to hand (its my job) but this is all i carry if i’m out and about/holiday/walking.

fixed lens, eats batteries (i take 4 with me), takes ages to write to card, AF is useless, screen is invisible in sunlight and doesn't tilt, only usable up to 200asa, software is painfully slow and crashes (no adobe/lightroom/support) menus are basic, files lack dynamic range and you can’t push/recover highlights.

best camera ever, will never sell it.

I could say my M4/3 20 mm f1.4, which is pretty close to the nifty fifty, but in reality it's my Samsung Galaxy S7, because I always have it with me.

50mm 2.8/ 75mm equivalent on a sigma merrill DP3.

I'm always looking for one of the Merrill's on eBay.

love my lumix 20mm 1.7 pancake