On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/22/11 11:47 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> I was browsing PPG images by lens and noticed that there are only 23 >> images there that were created with the 31mm f1.8 Limited. >> Compare this to 435 images taken with the 43mm f1.9 Limited, 855 >> images taken with the 77mm f1.8 Limited, and 1824 images taken with >> the 70mm f2.4 >> >> Not sure what to read into that. Maybe fewer people have the 31mm >> because they already have/had other lenses close to that range? >> I'm wondering how much the 35mm f2.8 Macro Limited cannibalizes sales >> from the 31mm f1.8 Limited? >> Or perhaps this is related to the recent reorganization of PPG (a work >> still in progress?) >> >> Darren Addy >> Kearney, Nebraska >> > > In my case I acquired the FA35/2AL when it first hit the market, and it's > such a capable lens that, even though I coveted the 31, I couldn't justify > taking that leap. > > Looking at my current LR catalog, the 35/2 and 43/1.9 combo represent 56% of > my photographs, with the 43 holding a slight edge in productivity. I suspect > that if I were to look a little further into my auxiliary drive, the 35/2 > would easily outpace all my other lenses.
I wonder if the skew in favour of longer glass reflects what the "average casual shooter" goes for? I'm guessing sports, wildlife, passive distance street shooting, portraits. I think that many people just don't know what to do with wide lenses. They force you to get close to action in all but landscape shooting and that makes many people uncomfortable. Just for grins I put my own Lr lens stats into a Google Docs spreadsheet and made a pretty pie-chart -- just 'cause I could. :-) (First time I've done that, ie whip up a speculative chart, and it's damned convenient.) http://goo.gl/UHhXt I was somewhat unsurprised to learn that 41% of my 30K shots were through the DA* 50-135/2.8. The next 40% were split between my DA* 16-50/2.8 and DA* 55/1.4. These numbers would likely be more meaningful if somehow normalized for length of ownership of each. The 55 gets the most use lately and I've had it the shortest time. My DA 35/2.8 is kind of specialized and only gets 9% of my time. I've always considered it as also a good street shooter, but I rarely do street shooting so it's just used for macro work really. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
