a zoom kit & a prime kit?

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i have had an outbreak of energy the past few days…cleaning, laundry and rearranging furniture…and thinking about my kit as i dust away.

what about a prime kit and a zoom kit? is this actually a thing?
right now, i have a prime kit…18/23/60 and it works pretty well for me.

i have a 16-50 in the mail and it struck me that i could get the xc 50-230 pretty cheap…

with 2 bodies splitting the difference i could keep a zoom kit and a prime kit.
maybe use the 16-50 as a walk around combo and maybe sell the x100 to boot!

the things that go through one's head while dusting...
 
I'm a little surprised the 50-230 is an xc and not an xf considering the FL.

Would you actually shoot between 60 and 230mm? If no, then no.
 
fuji has a xf 55-200…supposed to be an excellenet lens also.

i am primarily a prime user but for a few bucks the zooms might shake me up, get me looking at the world in a different...
 
Although not the cameras you use, I do have similar kits for [horrors] film Nikons. But I don't put one camera with one kit and another with the other. The lenses are in bags; I just have to switch the cameras. For the Nikons, the prime kit is 20/35/85/180. For the zooms, 25 to 50 and 80 to 200.
 
As I get older and my body grows weary, I find zooms more and more appealing. That, and the XF zooms are excellent. I started my Fuji kit as a zoom kit first (18-55 to start). Next will be the 55-200 and then the new wide when it launches.
 
i'm thinking the xc zooms should be fine for my use…i prefer the 16-50 to the 18-55 as it starts a touch wider and the 50-230 not only goes longer but still gets a pretty good review for image making.
plastic construction/mounts nowadays are not that much of a negative, especially for amateur use and slower apertures no worry for a daytime user with cameras that have great high iso.
 
do u really do wide angle and need the prime quality? same question as, do you really do macro and need the prime quality? If not, you can replace them with the Zoom.

For me, a ZOOM plus one big aperture prime (35mm or 23mm on FUJI) is the most flexible setup and meet the requirement.
 
More and more I find primes less and less useful for general use.

On the other hand, all those years of conditioning means that I feel the need to keep not one but three prime lens kits around (LTM, Nikon and Hasselblad mounts).

90% or more of the pictures I like are shot with zooms, these days, so keeping the primes seems illogical. I'm christening this malaise Gear Retention Syndrome, until someone thinks of a better name (or acronym)

;)
 
Zooms don't work for me personally. I need the constriction of focal length, otherwise my compositions turn to rubbish.
 
I find that a prime kit makes sense as long as it does not involve more than 3 focal lengths.

I don't like changing lenses all the time, I want to be taking pictures.

For travel I usually carry a 35 and perhaps a 90, but increasingly I have been ditching the 90 in favour of a fuji X10 which personally think is a brilliant walkabout camera and is very small.

I'm waiting to see what the X30 will be, if there is a 1" sensor in it I may actually upgrade?

At this point, I'm only taking out 1 lens with me. a 50 or a 35, depending how much I expect to be shooting indoors/outdoors, how crowded the place is going to be etc.

I find it very liberating. A zoom is undeniably useful, but most are big and unwieldy for my taste.
 
Let's throw a spanner in the works here, Fuji are even now talking about introducing some "super" telephoto lenses as well! :D (I'm guessing the new body about to be launched will be a similar SLR style type body ala the OM-D)

A lens range totalling *20* .... YES *20* lenses! :eek:

Also no plans yet for an X-Pro2 if the translating is right.... So even more firmware updates for the X-Pro1 maybe? :)


http://www.fujirumors.com/fuji-mana...lenses-as-soon-as-possible-no-x-pro2-for-now/
 
gavinlg said:
Zooms don't work for me personally. I need the constriction of focal length, otherwise my compositions turn to rubbish.
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I do not disagree with you and I do like my primes, but to restate part my earlier post... my aging body has brought zooms back into the repertoire after years of rigid adherence to primes. Regarding composition, I find the immediacy of being able to reframe by zoom rather than physical relocation to have actually helped in my compositions of late. In my humble opinion, today's zooms' qualities arguably surpass many primes of the not too distant past and part of me wishes I had given them more merit earlier.
 
well, 6 days of waiting left if the post office tracking can be believed…but who knows what this crazy weather might do for delivery times!?
 
burancap said:
I do not disagree with you and I do like my primes, but to restate part my earlier post... my aging body has brought zooms back into the repertoire after years of rigid adherence to primes. Regarding composition, I find the immediacy of being able to reframe by zoom rather than physical relocation to have actually helped in my compositions of late. In my humble opinion, today's zooms' qualities arguably surpass many primes of the not too distant past and part of me wishes I had given them more merit earlier.
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I totally agree. Sold 2 of my primes. One left (60). May keep it though as it not a bad macro and a great portrait lens.
 
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