Originally posted by normhead A whole kit with not a single lens 200mm or over?
I won't use 200mm, doesn't make a huge difference, at least not enough to blow big money. Although it loses 20mm on the long end, the Tamron there is three lenses in one for me. Medium tele, portrait (it's that good) and a macro/close up with the NiSI 77mm macro attachment lens. Keeping the Raynox DCR-150, 250 and MSN-505 because they're small and light and already here.
200mm+ on FE is both money and very importantly, heavy. But... those three (20, 55, 70-180) lenses together come to 1.4 kilos. My DFA* 2.8/70-200 alone weighs 1.75 kilos. With the K-1 and grip, 3.2 kilos. Then I'm also lugging the DFA 15-30. Then more. It's too much. Lovely gear, lovely photos, too big and heavy for me. I can't haul it, I can't carry it, my rotator cuff shoulder won't even lift it, thus I don't use it.
This is a kit consolidation (from 24 lenses to 7) and serious lightening exercise, down to what I can reasonably haul and only what I would regularly use.
DFA* 70-200 on K-1 (I shall miss this big bag of primes)...
Last edited by Parry; 02-27-2021 at 02:26 PM.