My prime kit now consists of 16(fisheye),24,28,35,40,50,85,90,100, 135,150, 200, 300, 400 and 500. (NO, I don't carry them all at once) ;-) Though the 40 and 90 are redundant they have an entirely different character than their 35 and 85mm counterparts.
The missing length between 50 and 85 bothers me for some reason. 50 seems a bit short and 85 a bit long for some portraits on the D. Heck, maybe I'm just a lens addict! ;-) If the sun ever comes back out I'll try the 50/1.4 with the 1.4x. Might just do the trick. Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Filling the 50-85mm gap. > > > From: "Don Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Any suggestions, other than the 77Ltd. (Which I can't afford) > > for manual focus primes to fill the gap between 50 and 85mm? > > I'm good down to 16mm and up to 400, but 50-85 is a pretty big > > hole, and I'd rather not fill it with a zoom. > > I was thinking of the K35/2 with a good 7 element 2x but I hate to > > do that to that nice lens. ;-/ > > > > Don > > Hmmm, if you consider 50-85 to be a big gap just how many primes are you > going to carry around with you? I find a 1.4x converter fills > in the gaps > nicely between primes and solves the problem of how much weight > I'm prepared > to lug around. > > 1.4x converters have an easier time and generally yield better > results than > you get from the normal 2x jobbies. I would hesitate to use a > converter on > a wide angle lens, however a 1.4x converter on a 50 is an ideal > combination, > should give you the focal length you are looking for. > > I use an old DOI 1.4 converter that is stunningly good and a > fraction of the > size of any 2x converter - so small you don't notice it. The DOI > came top in > a comprehensive converter shootout in Amateur Photographer at the > time yet, > if you see one, you probably won't need to pay much more than a tenner for > it. > > Or the 40mm pancake with the 1.7xAF converter could be fun - I wouldn't > expect the results to be as good though. > > Rob. > > >
