Hi all i am giving you a challenge. What is the lightest setup you can think of for this focal range for travelling?
The rules are below:
- Can mention primes as well as zooms
- Minimum apature of f2.8
- Cropping up to 1.4x is fine to cover a missing focal length range
- Can be a manual adapted lens at the 100-200 focal length.
- from 24-100 it needs to be a AF lens(adapted or native)
Post the list of lenses you can think of and the weight of it all
OK, so I'm a long time lurker, first time poster to this thread. Straight off the bat, just wondering, what have I let myself in for?!
Anyway, I've been looking in to this very thing for an upcoming holiday - primes versus zooms - , so am happy to share with the group. Going entirely native, you've got:
FE 24mm f1.4 G Master Lens
FE 35mm f1.8 Lens (imminent release)
FE 55mm f1.8 ZA Lens
FE 85mm f1.8 Prime Lens
FE 135mm f1.8 G Master Lens
Which, all told, comes in at 2327g (specs from Wex website). (Combined price, also from Wex, is £5,125.)
If you can do without the 135mm (which would take you to 202mm cropped), the weight comes down to 1377g and the price to £3,376. (Talking brand new, of course). That's actually what I'm settling on. For my shooting, I tend to do landscapes, street and the odd portrait (as in rare, not weird) so the longer focal lengths don't get used so often.
But since I've looked in to it - for zooms, you've got:
FE24-70 and FE70-200 - combined weight, 2389g, cost, £4,218.
I'm sure I'm being obvious, but it's a choice between convenience with zooms and quality with primes. An aguable point, of course. My biggest decision was whether to go for more G Master lenses but I wanted to keep the weight down, so that was a factor in my overall decision.