Originally posted by MShawn63 Good advice Rico and I am in awe of your collection and thrifty methods of aquisition. I would probably go nuts with that many lenses and then trying to figure out which one to use when.
I'll go way off-topic here, but what the hell.
Lens count: I'm a piker compared to some here. At least one member probably has more Fifty's than I have lenses, total. And my count should hopefully drop by 15 or 20 in a few days when I put another batch up for sale... so I can buy more lenses, heh heh.
Thriftiness: That's a mandate, not an option. In order to buy something, I must first sell something. I wonder how much my granddaughter would fetch... ?? Naw, not much, she's mean.
Tryouts: I haven't tried much of my glass yet, just haven't had the right circumstances. For journeys of more than a few hours, I try to take a lens-of-the-day or two, just for tryouts. Alas, too many of those are so good that I want to carry them always. But my pack llama ran off, and my porter Ansel demands a golf cart to schlep this stuff around. Bother.
Saturation: It happens. Yeah, 20 Twenty's are about enough, as are 50 Fifty's. I won't even try for 100 Hundred's. And I haven't enough storage for many more, so I'll need to thin-out the herd. What to dispose of? Those that are neither flashy nor trashy enough? Everything whose name does (or doesn't) end in -on? Aw, I'll just do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do. But they haven't yet instructed me to part with the Rubinar Makpo 1000/10 mirror. There must be a reason...