Following a change from my 7D to a 5DIII (arriving this week - woohoo!), and some spurious purchases in the past, I find myself with some duplicate and potentially redundant lenses.
10-22mm EF-S -> Going to my son, with the 7D.
Which will leave me with:
16-35 L f/2.8 II <-- New, to replace the 10-22 on my FF (which I used a lot)
24-70mm L f/2.8 Mk 1 (old, but bold and gold - have had this since my 10D days) <-- used a lot, and will use even more on FF I'm sure.
24-105mm f/4 L IS - recent spurious acquisition
70-200mm f/4 L IS <- don't use this v.much
100mm f/2.8 L IS Macro - Not used much, not a bugs guy.
85mm f/1.8 - have barely used this
I shoot allsorts - travel, urban scenes, portraits, occasional weddings in probably that order.
On the 7D, most used lens was the 10-22, so the 16-35 is staying.
On the medium telephoto - not sure if I'll keep both the 24-70 and 24-105mm. The latter is much newer, the 24-70 quite old now, but perfect cond. I'll struggle to choose between these two! I'll get more use of these on FF. Thoughts?
With 4 lenses vying for 85mm-100mm coverage, I sense the 85mm 1.8 is probably first to go. I hardly use it now, and kept it for low light stuff, which i don't do a lot of. The 100mm macro could step in if I needed 2.8 in that f/l.
Although I don't use it a lot, my 70-200 is a great lens, albeit f/4 max aperture. I can live with this as used to own the mk1 2.8 and sold it because it was just too big and too loud (in the white sense - I hate white lenses).
I just sense that I could sell on some redundancy and maybe put funds towards some studio lighting gear - I hate to let gear go though.
Help this lens hoarder!
What would you change?
Simon
10-22mm EF-S -> Going to my son, with the 7D.
Which will leave me with:
16-35 L f/2.8 II <-- New, to replace the 10-22 on my FF (which I used a lot)
24-70mm L f/2.8 Mk 1 (old, but bold and gold - have had this since my 10D days) <-- used a lot, and will use even more on FF I'm sure.
24-105mm f/4 L IS - recent spurious acquisition
70-200mm f/4 L IS <- don't use this v.much
100mm f/2.8 L IS Macro - Not used much, not a bugs guy.
85mm f/1.8 - have barely used this
I shoot allsorts - travel, urban scenes, portraits, occasional weddings in probably that order.
On the 7D, most used lens was the 10-22, so the 16-35 is staying.
On the medium telephoto - not sure if I'll keep both the 24-70 and 24-105mm. The latter is much newer, the 24-70 quite old now, but perfect cond. I'll struggle to choose between these two! I'll get more use of these on FF. Thoughts?
With 4 lenses vying for 85mm-100mm coverage, I sense the 85mm 1.8 is probably first to go. I hardly use it now, and kept it for low light stuff, which i don't do a lot of. The 100mm macro could step in if I needed 2.8 in that f/l.
Although I don't use it a lot, my 70-200 is a great lens, albeit f/4 max aperture. I can live with this as used to own the mk1 2.8 and sold it because it was just too big and too loud (in the white sense - I hate white lenses).
I just sense that I could sell on some redundancy and maybe put funds towards some studio lighting gear - I hate to let gear go though.
Help this lens hoarder!
What would you change?Simon
