With the release of the DA* zooms my lens lineup will look like this NOT counting the FA50 as I plan to sell this lens and replace it with another prime or two at most. (Im selling the FA50 because Im a little dissapointed with its indoor low-light focusing otherwise its a great lens and I love it for portraits).
Lineup:
DA 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 Fisheye
DA* 16-50mm f/2.8 SDM
DA* 60-250mm f/4 SDM
DFA 100mm f/2.8 Macro
So I want to add 2 primes to my lens lineup that would complement the list above.
Here are the options:
a)FA 31mm f/1.8 Limited & DA* 55mm f/1.4 SDM
b)FA 31mm f/1.8 Limited & DA 70mm f/2.4 Limited
c)FA 43mm f/1.9 Limited & DA 70mm f/2.4 Limited
I should also note how I would utilize the lenses:
FA31 - (low-light indoor lens/group & full body lens/normal lens/abstract shots (taking advantage of bokeh at this focal lenght)/some landscape)
DA*55 - (low-light/normal and head and shoulders portraits) (think I'll like this lens a lot because I love the rendering of the FA50 and love its application for portraits - this with 5mm more is even closer to the sweetspot of portrait photography with the 1.5x crop and I think it will focus a lot better as I think it will have a redesign over traditional 50mm lenses and of course SDM will help and it would sit very nicely between the FA31 and DFA100)
DA70 - (normal & headshot portraits) I like the pancake design and QS focusing.
DA43 - (long normal/short portraits) like the DA*55 a replacement for the FA50 though at a slightly different FL basically.
My current option is for a) and the reasons are: I can get the FA31 now and save up for the DA* 55 when available!
I think the focal lenght combo works well and useful as an 31,55,100 (more so than the 31,70,100 and 43,70,100 combo)
Please raise your opinions on what you think!
Last edited by sft; 06-16-2007 at 05:00 PM.
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