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What's Your favorite Lens? And Why?
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May 31, 2013 - 4:04 pm
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Tough question for me. At this point, my very favorite lenses were from the "old days":

The 90mm for my Leica M4-2. GAWD, what a gorgeous lens: sharp beyond sharp; a great portrait lens.
My Tamron 500 CAT for my Nikons. It made Nikon redesign THEIR CAT. It was sharp, and so much fun to use.
The Kiron 105: sharp as a tack and also focused down to 1:1 macro.
The original Nikkor 80 - 200; Nikon redesigned it to be smaller. HA. It was also less sharp. Mine's a beauty.

I now have a Nikkor 18 - 55, a Tamron 70 -300, and, for kicks, a Rokinon 8mm. Of the three, the Tamron is my favorite. It's also got modest macro capability.

But, lordy, that Leica 90.................

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June 2, 2013 - 5:20 pm
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Nikkor 18-200 After getting dust on the sensor somewhere in Zion I swore I would never change lenses again.

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June 2, 2013 - 5:36 pm
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I hear ya.

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June 2, 2013 - 8:23 pm
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When I bought it it came with a D5100 😉

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June 2, 2013 - 9:45 pm
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For a newer lens I like my Nikon 35 1.8 afs.

From my old Minolta stuff:
Tele rokkor 135 2.8 my dad bought years ago.
Minolta md 28-85 I bought with snow shoveling money in 1986.
Tamron 70-210 adaptall II

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