What Lens Should I Take?
12/14/08 19:10 Filed in: Equipment
Almost every forum that I visit, there is always someone asking “which lens should I take to (fill in the blank here)”. So this post is for all of those that ask that question and more. I went through that same dilemna myself and I will post later on what equipment I took and how I got it there and back safely. To answer the topic question, I used Adobe Lightroom 2 to do some statistics. Of the 1800 or so pictures I took, Adobe Lightroom reports the following information.
That’s right, I took 9 lenses for the 1D’s and the 6.0-72.0mm lens is the PowerShot. As you can see, my most used lenses were the 300, 16-35, 24-70, 85 and the 70-200 in order of pictures taken. You can see that I took two Tilt-Shift lenses too and only used them a couple of times. So was it worth it to take those two? Well they got me a picture that I wouldn’t get otherwise and since I doubt I will be traveling to Tasmania again real soon, it was worth it. The 1D was brought along as insurance in case I had problems with the 1Ds. I didn’t, but on a couple of occasions it was convenient to have two lenses on two camera bodies so that I could quickly snap some wildlife that happened along while I was setting up a macro shot or a landscape shot. The PowerShot was for my wife, in fact a lot of her pictures are better composed than mine. But it was mainly brought along to take videos, which it did a superb job at. If I had to narrow the lenses down a bit, we can look at the stats for the gallery put together by Lisa shown below.I guess I could have left the 300 at home and gone with the 1.4x and 2.0x converter option on the 70-200. That would narrow the list down to 16-35, 24-70, 70-200 and the 85. Not a bad set and this is pretty close to the kit I take with me when I shoot action sports (well, I always take the 300 to as it is a very hard lens to leave at home and usually leave behind the 85).
That’s right, I took 9 lenses for the 1D’s and the 6.0-72.0mm lens is the PowerShot. As you can see, my most used lenses were the 300, 16-35, 24-70, 85 and the 70-200 in order of pictures taken. You can see that I took two Tilt-Shift lenses too and only used them a couple of times. So was it worth it to take those two? Well they got me a picture that I wouldn’t get otherwise and since I doubt I will be traveling to Tasmania again real soon, it was worth it. The 1D was brought along as insurance in case I had problems with the 1Ds. I didn’t, but on a couple of occasions it was convenient to have two lenses on two camera bodies so that I could quickly snap some wildlife that happened along while I was setting up a macro shot or a landscape shot. The PowerShot was for my wife, in fact a lot of her pictures are better composed than mine. But it was mainly brought along to take videos, which it did a superb job at. If I had to narrow the lenses down a bit, we can look at the stats for the gallery put together by Lisa shown below.I guess I could have left the 300 at home and gone with the 1.4x and 2.0x converter option on the 70-200. That would narrow the list down to 16-35, 24-70, 70-200 and the 85. Not a bad set and this is pretty close to the kit I take with me when I shoot action sports (well, I always take the 300 to as it is a very hard lens to leave at home and usually leave behind the 85).
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