Photography

24 readers

1 users here now

A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@viewfinder.pro

What’s your forever lens? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by barberheart@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

357 comments fedilink hide all child comments

If you could only use one lens for the rest of time what would it be?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] AlaskaDale@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Picking a zoom lens seems to be cheating, since a zoom can cover just about any range you wish.

Now, if you limit it to a single focal length lens, as I think the questioner may have intended, then I'd recommend a fast 35mm. This focal length provides a bit of a wide angle perspective, but without any distortion, and can serve as a wider "normal" lens, instead of a 50mm. For a second lens, I'd have to go with a 90mm, or the classic Nikon 105 2.5.

But of course, the advent of high quality, fast zoom lenses has made the use of single focal length lenses somewhat of an aberration these days.