Your least used lens

[Millie]

Just interested to know what your least used lens is.?

Ones that you haven't used in the last year - but don't sell cos one day it mght come in handy for a specific task or you just don't want / need the hassle of selling via ebay or elsewhere.

Millie

[Nathaniel]

Re: Your least used lens

My least used lens is the Canon EF 28mm-105mm. Don't know why I haven't used it as it is quite a nice lens for a "walk about" one.

[colin C]

Re: Your least used lens

My 100 mm f2.8 macro.

My MR14-EX macro ring light went bang, cost more to repair than it cost new and I haven't bothered to replace it yet. As I always used the lens and ringlight in combination, it hasn't come out of the bag for a while.

Colin

[briansquibb]

Re: Your least used lens

None - I have used them all within the last 3 months. Of course it helps having the full frame and the 1.6 as it increases the use of each lens

[X-ray-spex]

Re: Your least used lens

Nifty 50 ................ but not worth selling as it cost so little and might come in handy one day ..... small enough to stick in yer pocket as well.

[Nathaniel]

Re: Your least used lens

Nifty 50 ................ but not worth selling as it cost so little and might come in handy one day ..... small enough to stick in yer pocket as well.

Keep hold of it. The nifty fifty produces very very sharp images and quite light to carry about in your camera bag. I use mine extensively in places where you can't take any flash pics such as museums and the f1.8 aperture comes in very handy.

[djguk47]

Re: Your least used lens

Was my nifty 50 up until about a week ago when I used it to take some shots of 13 yr old daughter before she went to her school sports dinner. All dressed up and looking like an 18 year old, so after the taking the shots I was feeling so old I climbed on my motorized zimmer and wandered of to bed...

David

[Les McLean]

Re: Your least used lens

My least used lens is also my favourite, 85mm f1.2, although it's said (with merit) that it's Canon's ultimate portrait lens, for informal 'street type' of shooting I use the 135mm f2, as it's much quicker to focus (and lighter), having said that, I do prefer using the 85mm if I know I will have the time to compose/focus, apart from being marginally sharper than the 135, you can shoot head & shoulder type shots while still remaining in comfortable communication distance with the subject.

[briansquibb]

Re: Your least used lens

I have the 24-105 f4 on the 50d and the 135 on the 5d as standard

Just love the 135

[MX5]

Re: Your least used lens

My 1200mm ... too big too heavy too white ;-)

Nah ... my Sigma 10-20

[Glenn]

Re: Your least used lens

50mm f1.4 and the 17-40mm. The 50mm almost got traded in not so long ago but decided against it as it's worth having a 50mm in the bag. Since going FF for all my landscape work my 17-40mm has seen little action as I've rarely felt the need to go that wide.

[briansquibb]

Re: Your least used lens

People forget that the 17-40 on FF is more use than 10-22 on 1.6

[Stan]

Re: Your least used lens

The 18-55 kit lens that came with my original 400D, not been used in 2 1/2 years and probably never will, then my nifty fifty, that probably would be used more but it is so small i tend to forget i have it

Stan

[jhdee]

Re: Your least used lens

The 18-55 kit lens that came with my original 400D, not been used in 2 1/2 years and probably never will

.... me too ... keep it on my old 20D to keep the dust out !!!

[DrJon]

Re: Your least used lens

It was the 17-85 when I was shooting 1.6x (really didn't like it much, usually stuck to the 24-105 and lived without a wide end), but I traded that in against a 14mm last year, so now it's the 10-22 (as I only have a very old non-FF body, but I'm keeping the lens as it's excellent and I'm sure I'll have something to put it on at some point) followed by the 70-300 DO (as the GF1 + 28-280 beats it for walking around most of the time, unless the 5DmkII viewfinder wins out for some reason).
(Well, unless we count FD glass...)
:-)
John