SomeGuyWithA.com » Photography http://someguywitha.com Everything you wanted to know about nothing Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:06:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-RC3-15260 My Most wanted list for Camera Accessories http://someguywitha.com/2006/07/20/tfs-for-the-masses/ http://someguywitha.com/2006/07/20/tfs-for-the-masses/#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:15:38 +0000 James http://someguywitha.com/2006/07/20/tfs-for-the-masses/ Lenses

  • First and best…  17-55m DX + hood. Basically a great “standard lens.” It’s not perfect, but it has enough quality and range and fits the focal lengths between the 12-24mm and 70-200mm reasonably.
  • The a decent Tele-Converter the TC-17E. A 1.4x is not enough to really get excited about (that gives me a 100-280 zoom, only 80mm more than normal), while the 2x starts to show visible degradation.
  • 12-24mm DX + hood or the Tokina AT-X 124 AF PRO DX. I lile to shoot landscapesa and need wide angle, high quality, and these are the best of the bunch right now.
  • Then I want to replace my standard 70-300f4 with the 70-200mm VR f2.8 + hood. The telephoto workhorse. There’s nothing better in this range, though you do need to watch for flare issues.
  • 85mm PC just because this is one of the coolest lenses of all time and gives tilt-shift capability when you need it, though not necessarily at the focal length I want that at. An interesting choice for two-shot telephoto panoramas (one shot shifted one way, second shot shifted all the way to the other side).
  • 77mm filter stack. Caps on a stack that consists of IR, ND, polarizer, FLD, and CU filters.
  • Note that all the filterable lenses in the kit are all 77mm

Goodies

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