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If you shot Nikon or Canon, or Fuji or Olympus, or even Panasonic or Sony, you have a bewildering number of lenses to choose from!\u00a0 Well, not so much Sony, but even they are adding more lenses quickly!\u00a0 So if you have 40 lenses to choose between, how on earth do you decide????\u00a0 For the sake of this blog entry, let’s limit ourselves to photo generalists!\u00a0 ( Travel, Nature, Portrait, Wedding, Close-ups, Americana ).\u00a0 Got it?\u00a0 For now you Sports shooters, and Wildlife folks will have to sit this one out!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because you photographers have to have long fast glass, and most of us don’t!<\/p>\n
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For some years three lenses from Nikon have been called the holly trinity, a term I’m not comfortable with!\u00a0 There is only one Holy Trinity, and that would be the Father, Son and the Holy Sprit!\u00a0 So let’s just call them the Big Three.\u00a0 They are the 14-24, 24-70<\/span><\/strong> and the 70-200<\/span><\/strong>, all fast f 2.8 lenses. \u00a0If you shoot Nikon, they are the best three lenses covering those focal lengths, PERIOD.\u00a0 But I don’t shoot Nikon anymore!\u00a0 So what are my Big Three?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the Fuji X-System they are the 10-24<\/span><\/strong> (15-36 equiv.), the 16-55<\/strong><\/span> (24-83) and the 50-140<\/span><\/strong> (75-210) all f 2.8 lenses, except the 10-24 which is an f 4. They cost at least 40% less, weigh at least 40% less and are equally well made and, I believe, are even sharper!\u00a0 The 14-24 and the 10-24 are very close.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So that is my base lens system, so is that it?\u00a0 Nope I feature a number of images in my approach that exhibit very shallow depth, so the 16mm f 1.4<\/span><\/strong> (24mm) and the 90mm f 2<\/span><\/strong> (135mm) With those two lenses I get extraordinary sharpness and spectacular bokeh!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I love to do closeup work so while I await the arrival of the Fuji 120mm Macro<\/strong><\/span>, I carry the 60mm f 2.4 Macro<\/span><\/strong> and a few Automatic Extension tubes.\u00a0 One last lens that is always in the bag is the very versatile, and extremely sharp 18-135 f 3.5-5.6<\/strong><\/span> (27-200).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The point is have a super wide, a moderate mid range zoom, a fast te\u0142ephoto zoom, some fast lenses for available light and shallow depth shots, a Macro lens, and a smaller, versatile, and a all day walk around zoom!\u00a0 7 lenses to do it all!!!!!\u00a0 Oh, and later we will get a 1.4 teleconverter<\/strong><\/span> that will extend the 50-140 and the 90mm!!!! \u00a0By-the-way the 90mm f 2 is a very close focusing lens and with extension tubes, diopters and when the \u00a01.4 converter comes along it will serve as a 135mm Macro lens too!!!! \u00a0I will test it with all the above (except the 1.4 converter – not out yet), \u00a0soon for a blog entry on this incredible piece of glass!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How sweet it is!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings and have a great weekend,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you shot Nikon or Canon, or Fuji or Olympus, or even Panasonic or Sony, you have a bewildering number of lenses to choose from!\u00a0 Well, not so much Sony, but even they are adding more lenses quickly!\u00a0 So if you have 40 lenses to choose between, how on earth do you decide????\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15046"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15052,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046\/revisions\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}