One lens

[burancap]

I find that I pack with the best intentions ... and never use even 1/4 of what I left with!

Of all the lugging I could do, my happiest recent times have been with the bitty RX100 in my pocket!

 

[helen.HH]

Helen, you are not a bag lady are you!😉

No, but perhaps I should perk at Joe's Thread
If i carried one it must be a Shoulder type, compact/ small
For one M body & 1 lens and if I could my compact digi X1 😉

Any suggestions ?

 

[gb hill]

No, but perhaps I should perk at Joe's Thread
If i carried one it must be a Shoulder type, compact/ small
For one M body & 1 lens and if I could my compact digi X1 😉

Any suggestions ?

I have a small Tamrac that I carry on my shoulder. Joe & others will guide you in the right direction. You will soon be the 😎est bag lady in NYC.😀

 

[Frank Petronio]

One lens seems to have worked OK for my stuff.

 

[back alley]

No, but perhaps I should perk at Joe's Thread
If i carried one it must be a Shoulder type, compact/ small
For one M body & 1 lens and if I could my compact digi X1 😉

Any suggestions ?

look at the gorgeous ona bowery in leather...

 

[Ken Ford]

I just came back from checking out the Sony 35/1.8 and the Sony/Zeiss 24/1.8 side by side. Ugh. I think I'm going to need to go with the 24 for how I shoot.

 

[Murchu]

Sure. Anything that removes something in the way between you and the images you wish to create, is a good thing.

 

[charjohncarter]

I just don't like changing lenses in the 'field' so I put one on and go for it. Also, I always thought of 35mm as miniature photography. So why carry all that stuff. Now if I'm out shooting at will, I use my Olympus 35RC, mostly for size but also for the on board meter which I trust. Frankly, I find the lens no worse and maybe better than my Leica lenses, It is a cheaply made camera, so I'm very careful with it.

Mexico next week and I taking it: loaded with TriX.

Recently with Tmax400 (TMY-2):

 

[gb hill]

I just came back from checking out the Sony 35/1.8 and the Sony/Zeiss 24/1.8 side by side. Ugh. I think I'm going to need to go with the 24 for how I shoot.

I was going to ask why not go with the 24 since the 35mm perspective is where you are comfortable at. I think you made a good choice.

 

[Texsport]

Using a single lens can be fun.

I enjoy the old Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 "Bokina" macro lens in FD mount on a Canon T90 camera.

Macro + Portrait + Landscape capabilities.

When I also carry my Olympus OM-D, And an FD/m43 adapter, I also have a 180mm telephoto.

Texsport

 

[froyd]

We've talked about this before, but I'm slowly rediscovering that I do my best candid work when I head out with only one lens. No fussing with which lens to use forces me to work the scene. This was a lesson I learned years ago but forgot in the race to get all the bases covered with digital. I've been out of commission for several months, and now that I'm trying to get shooting again this is on my mind.

I'm seriously considering selling off my Sony NEX glass (three Sigmas in 28-40-90mm equivalents) and picking up a Sony 35/1.8 (50mm-e) to use as a one-and-only candids lens.

Has anyone else found that using a single lens provides creative focus and discipline?

You are just at step 2 in the program. Step 3 is just around the corner!


1: buy primes on all major focal lengths, supplement with zoom lenses
2: pick one lens or two to do 90% of your photography
3: reintegrate other useful focal lenghts, but use them with th eintelligence gained in step 2... i.e. don't walk out the door with 3 kg of glass hanging off your shoulder or assume that just because you have every lens in the bag, you'll bag the shot 🙂

I echo your journey, though on totally different platforms, and like many who've posted here, I now prefer to take either the 35 or the 50 with me, and supplement with a wide or tele, if the occasion really warrants it. Sometime, just for fun, I'll just take out the 90 as my single lens to see what I can come up with given that it's my least used lens. It's a good challenge and I usually end up with some great images.

PS- I'm obviously just an amateur, and I'm sure I'd act differently if I worked for a paper.

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

PS- I'm obviously just an amateur, and I'm sure I'd act differently if I worked for a paper.

It's interesting that you think so. I knew various press men, in the 'sixties and into the early seventies, who started their shifts with a Rolleiflex, a flash and five rolls of film. If it was a really busy day, they might take ten rolls.

35mm press work in Britain didn't take off until the mid 'seventies, so far as I recall. There were people like Victor Blackman, who wrote a column in Amateur Photographer, that eulogised the Nikon system for press work but that level of investment was pretty much limited to Fleet Street. When I worked on a local paper in the London suburbs, around '68, our chief photographer carried a Canon 7. On the other hand, he was considered a dangerous radical. 😀

 

[Ken Ford]

It's interesting that you think so. I knew various press men, in the 'sixties and into the early seventies, who started their shifts with a Rolleiflex, a flash and five rolls of film. If it was a really busy day, they might take ten rolls.

35mm press work in Britain didn't take off until the mid 'seventies, so far as I recall. There were people like Victor Blackman, who wrote a column in Amateur Photographer, that eulogised the Nikon system for press work but that level of investment was pretty much limited to Fleet Street. When I worked on a local paper in the London suburbs, around '68, our chief photographer carried a Canon 7. On the other hand, he was considered a dangerous radical. 😀

I still have back problems from the sack 'o Nikons I carried 24/7 when I was a full time working PJ back in the 80s... but that was differrent. Can you see showing up for a football game with just a 35, or to a Boy Scout award ceremony with only a 300? Getting the job done was paramount and trumped pure creativity - you learned to be creative with restrictions.

 

[Photo_Smith]

My favourite camera is a Rolleiflex–it has two lenses 😉

 

[Godfrey]

My favourite camera is a Rolleiflex–it has two lenses 😉

Now that's a wonderful answer ... 🙂

G

 

[zuiko85]

If the camera has a fixed lens then yeah, I go out with one lens. But if it has interchangeable lenses I want to just pick one but find myself taking a couple more, 'just in case'. That said I seldom change lenses on a walkabout, perhaps no more than one time out of eight that I'm on a stroll.