Hi everyone....
Every Camera brand makes great lenses. But we end up choosing at least 2 of them.
I do hotel/ architecture photography alongside environmental portrait most of the time, so I have Nikon 16-35mm f4G and 85mm 1.8G (And I still use DSLR, havent moved into mirrorless world yet)
My dream lens would be a 16-50mm 2.8 Premium Glass with Stabilization, like:
Nikon 16-50mm f2.8 S VR
Canon RF 16-50mm f2.8 L IS
This would be my "One Lens To Rule Them All"
Lets hear about Your favorite dream lens
Cheers
Reasonably sized Nikon Z 100mm F/2 or Canon RF 100mm F/2
Then perhaps, Sigma 500mm F/5.6 for Z mount would be cool.
For the rest, there's all I need.
for me a 500mm f4 with built in 1.4TC for birds
and something like a 50-250 f4 for safaris
So far, no one has produced a 500+mm f/4 that's <= 2.5kg. However, given the weight reduction Nikon and Sony have done with their superteles at 600mm, I think a 500mm f/4 at 2.5kg might be possible. That would be an incredible lens to have because it would give you that f/4 aperture and be fairly portable.
A second lens that I'd love is a lens that is 300mm or more and has 0.5x magnification. I think Canon patented one so it would definitely be possible. Possibly, 400mm with 0.4x would be not bad either. I think it would be an awesome butterfly/dragonfly lens with the possibility of the occasional bird eye when you can get close to park birds.
@jpolakphotography There may be some loss in sharpness, but Z70-180mm looks not that far from what you wish for regarding macro (or even better, see end of the article) : https://photographylife.com/nikons-secret-macro-lens
It may be cool if some of the team test it for macro, by the way. (I won't, I'm lazy and I'm bad at macro too :))
@jpolakphotography There may be some loss in sharpness, but Z70-180mm looks not that far from what you wish for regarding macro (or even better, see end of the article) : https://photographylife.com/nikons-secret-macro-lens
It may be cool if some of the team test it for macro, by the way. (I won't, I'm lazy and I'm bad at macro too :))
Yeah, the 70-180 is good, but I'd never be happy with the sharpness with a 2x teleconverter!
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Yeah, the 70-180 is good, but I'd never be happy with the sharpness with a 2x teleconverter!
Understandable indeed.