Poll: Who has the most lenses?

mel_cox · February 28, 2010

I'll keep buying lenses until my pictures start looking better :-)

Actually I just just bought a new lens yesterday, so now I have:

35mm 1.8 AF-S

60mm 2.8 Micro AF-S (on its way to me)

105mm 2.8 Micro AF-S VR

10-24mm AF-S

18-200mm AF-S VR

70-300mm AF-S VR

All Nikkor and for my D300

On my D40x: 18-55mm, 55-200mm both Nikkor AF-S VR

The only thing I want now in the lens department right now is something a bit longer than my 70-300mm. the only thing I could probably justify is something like the Sigma that goes out to 500mm. I want to go a minimum of 500mm.

Mel

theodore_papageorgiou · February 28, 2010

I have film cameras only.

One F5,and three F2s,(two of them F2AS).

As of lenses now.

One 20mm F2.8

One 24mm f2.8

One 28mm F2.8

One 35mm f2.0

One 50mm f1.8

One 50mm f1.4

One 55mm f3.5 macro

One 85mm f1.8

One 105mm f2.5

One 135mm f2.8

One 180mm f2.8 AF-D

One 17-35mm f2.8

One 80-200mm f2.8

Finished...

michael_alger · February 28, 2010

NAS can be overcome, it all a Zen-like ecercise of asceticism. I recently sold TWO lenses after I bought ONE new. I am quite horrified, thinking of where would this end..

bjørn rørslett · February 28, 2010

My oldest Nikkor lens that can be used on an "F"-mount camera is the 25 cm 1:4 Nikkor-Q from 1951. It mounts by the N-F tube to my Nikon DLSRs and even has got a CPU chip so it has full metering on all of them. The newest looks like it's going to be the 24/1.4.

The longest Nikkor is the 1200/11, the heaviest is 360-1200 mm f/11, the widest 6/5.6, the most expensive 300/2, the lightest probably the 45 GN, the most reliable is the 55/3.5 Micro, the most unreliable is 17-35/2.8, the fastest is the Repro 85/1, the focal length with highest diversity is 105mm (all models including UV-Nikkors), the rarest is 800/8ED, the most exclusive one is 35/1.4 with CPU (3 known samples), the one I wish I could remember the person borrowing it from me is the 400/2.8.

I haven't counted them for years.<div></div>

dweezil · February 28, 2010

let's see:

for nikon:

a crappy tamron 28-200 zoom f3.5-5.6

a sigma 28-70 2.8

a sigma 70-300 f4.5-5.6

a cheap plastic 35-80 f something - 5.6

the same in 28-80

a tokina 12-24 f4

a nikkor 50 1.8 afd

a nikkor - e 28 f2.8

a nikkor af-s if ed 28-70 f2.8

a nikkor af-s 18-135 kit lens(D80)

MF:

A pentacon 300mm f4

A Zeiss jena sonnar 180 f2.8

A Zeiss flektogon 50mm f4

An Arsat Volna 3 80mm f2.8

An Arsat Zodiak 30mm f3.5

An Arsat 55mm f4.5 shift

Nothing fancy, a bit too much to be confortable

pictureted · February 28, 2010

Well, AIS - 20/2.8, 28/2.8, 50/2, 55/2.8, 85/2, 105/2.5, 200/4 (7).

MF 500/8 and Spiratone 400/6.3 (2).

AF-Zoom, 10-24, 16-85 and 70-300 VR (3).

AF-Prime, 10.5/2.8, 35/1.8, 60/2.8, 105/2.8 and 200/4 (5).

Grand total 17 - 4 DX and 13 FX. All Nikon except 400. 3 F3HP's, 1 F2A and 1 D90 to shoot with.

Wouter Willemse · February 28, 2010

I'm positively light-weight with only 11 lenses (2 tokina, rest Nikon) and 2 TCs, and just one body.

With regards to NAS, I haven't bought anything in about a year since my current gear pretty much covers my needs and wants. That said, sometimes the D700 itch sets in (but it's a very very small itch) and I'd like to have a better 35mm prime but everytime I'm about to bite the bullet on a ZF 35 f/2, the AF-D 35 f/2 delivers again and the reason to upgrade is gone.... And thanks Nikon for pricing the 24 f/1.4 so way way out of my league, else it would be incredibly tempting.

So, yeah, NAS can be cured, but it does take quite a bit of reasoning and restraint :-)

kfoster70 · February 28, 2010

Okay Ill bite.

Nikon

12-24mm

18-200mm

17-55mm

70-200mm

35-70mm

35mm

50mm

60mm

85mm

105mm

80-200mm

300mm f/4

300mm f2.8

18-55mm

Sigma

150mm

50-500mm

2 flim slr's and 4 DSLR's

christiaan_phleger___honol · February 28, 2010

I think the gold goes to bjorn

g-man1 · March 1, 2010

24 for Leica and Nikon.

john_lynch5 · March 1, 2010

47 Nikkors, 10 third party, 17 bodies (all film).

borgis_karl_johan1 · March 1, 2010

To join in the fray,

here´s a list of bodies I´ve owned once upon a merry time, with no telling which ones I still have: Nikkormat Ftn, Nikkormat FT2, Nikomat ELW, Nikon FM, Nikon FM2T, Nikon FA (2), Nikon FE2 (2), Nikon F "Apollo", Nikon F2 AS, Nikon F3P, Nikon F4S, Nikon F5 Anniversary, NIKON F801 (8008), Nikon F100, Nikon D200.

Best liked among the analog bodies: probably the F4, more consistent exposures than the F100 I bought later. And great with MF lenses. Ergonomically and for the greatest improvement in handling compared to what was available before: the honors would have to go to the F801 (great finder, fast shutter, reliable exposure) though autofocus performance was nothing to write home about.

I may be back with a list of lenses. And am I a crazy fool? As you please...

tony_defilippo1 · March 2, 2010

Wow, this looks fun!

11 Camera bodies

6 Film 35mm Bodies ( 3x Nikkormat FTn, 1 FM2n, 1 F5, 1 Canonet)

1 Film 6x7 Pentax

1 Film 645 Pentax (not working)

1 Film MF Bronica

1 Film 4x5 Crowngraflex

1 D300

7 MF Nikkor's (24/2.8, 35/2.8, 50/1.8, 50/1.4, 55/3.5, 85/2, 135/3.5)

2 MF 3rd Party (Fisheye screw in, 300/5.5)

4 AF Nikkor's (20/2.8, 35-70/2.8, 55/2.8, 180/2.8)

4 Medium Format Lenses (I don't shoot them enough to know... :(

I need to downsize a bit.... some are sentimental keepers regardless of use but there is room for some trimming.

SolaresLarrave · March 2, 2010

I'm very modest...

2 film bodies (F100, F5) and one digital (D700)

My Nikon glass

AF-S 24-70 f2.8

AF-S 24-85 f3.5-4.5

AF-S 24-120 with VR

AF 70-210mm f4-5.6

AF ED 80-200 f2.8

AF 50mm f1.4

Other brand

Sigma AF 12-24 f4.5-5.6

Sigma AF 105mm f2.8 macro

Boy... I'm relieved! I was afraid I had more, but these are all I have after selling my Tamron AF 200-400 f5.6 (too big and heavy).

lahuasteca · March 3, 2010

OK, here we go: DX - 16-85vr and 55-200vr AFD - 50 mm 1.8, 85 f 1.8, 28-105 AF - 35-135 f 3.5-4.5 AI/AIS - 24 f 2.8 AI, 28 f 2.8 AIS, 35 f 2.0, 50 AI f 1.8, 50 AIS f 1.4, 50 AI f 2, 135 AIS f 2.8, 200 AIS f 4, 75-150 E f 3.5

I have a D80, still trying to decide whether to go D700, how do all those AI/AIS lenses work on FX without the miracle nano-coatings?

bjørn rørslett · March 3, 2010

A lot of your AI/AIS lenses will work quite well on the FX models. The various 50 mm versions should provide good to excellent results, as would the 24/2.8, 28/2.8, 135/2.8, and the 75-150. The 200/4 is sharp but can have troublesome CA on FX. I'm more lukewarm about the 35/2, it certainly is sharp on-axis but corners can be rather soft.

warren_wilson · March 3, 2010

Thanks -- you guys have all made me feel a lot better about the (apparently modest) amount Ive spent myself on lenses.

borgis_karl_johan1 · March 4, 2010

So here is the result of a severe case of NAS that started well-nigh forty years ago with a Christmas gift: a shining new Nikkormat Ftn with 50mm f2,0 lens. I barely slipped by a Canon FT QL which would have resulted in a quite different story.

Many of these lenses have by now passed on to other hands, some after only a short time. This is the list of lenses I have owned at one time or another as I recollect it, many but not all used pretty extensively:

12-24mm f4,0 Tokina AF, 14mm f3,5 Sigma, 15mm f3,5MF, 15mm f5,6MF, 16mm f2,8 AF fisheye, 16-85mm f3,5 VR, 17-35mmf2,8 (2), 20mmf4, 20mmf3,5, 20mm f2,8 MF(2), 21-35 mm Sigma AF, 24mm f2,8 MF, 24mmf2,8AF, 28mm f2,0MF, 28mm f2,8MF, 28-50mm f3,5 (2), 25-50mm f4,0 MF, 28-85mm f3,5 MF, 28-70mm f2,8 AF Sigma, 28-70mm f3,5 AF, 35-70mm f3,5 AF, 35-70mm f2,8AF, 35-105mm f3,5 AF, 35-105mm f3,5 MF, 35mm f2,8MF, 35mmf2,0MF, 35mmf1,4MF, 45mmf2,8P, 50mmf2,0 (2), 50mmf1,8MF, 50mmf1,4AF, 50mmf3,5Micro, 70-150mm f3,5E, 70-200mm AF VR1, 80-200mm f2,8 AF(2), 80-200 mmf4,5MF, 80-200 mm F4,0MF, 85mm f2,0MF, 85mm f1,8MF(3), 85mmf1,4MF, 85mmf1,4AF, 100mm f2,8E, 105mmf2,5MF(2), 105mmf1,8MF, 105mm f2,0DC, 135mm f3,5MF, 180mm f2,8MF, 200mm f2,0VR, 400mm f5,6MF, 400mm f5,6Novoflex, some terrible 400mm f6,3 preset lenses (Raynox and Prinz I believe), 500mm f8,0 mirror, a number of TC´s. And stuff I´ve forgotten.

Why this foolishness? Well it has been a lot of fun. Most optics have served extremely well for travelling to out- of- the way places, in SEA and the Pacific among others.

Am I cured by now? Possibly not. I did NOT however try to buy the 13mm lens recently sold on the auction site for nearly 13000 Euros...

Most well liked and used: the 20 mm f4,0 and 45mm f2,8 lenses for their petite size, the 16-85mm DX lens for universal use and the 70-200mm. 85mm f1,4 for portraits. And the 28-50mm lens which is one of those sleepers

Problem lenses: the 105mm DC (focus accuracy with a D200), 35-105mm AF and 17-35mm (maladjusted samples) and the 20mm f2,8MF (front CRC unit falls out...)

dimitris_georgopoulos1 · March 5, 2010

I have 36 lenses and 13 bodies. They accumulated with the years. They are all dear to me and especially my first Nikkormat FT3 my F2A and my FM2n.

Most of them have my sweat, my breath, even my tears on them and the most important they are the tools that captured my memories and helped me to developed my skills.

Although the digital era dictates that it would be adviseable to limit that collection to the more essential pieces, I really feel frustrated when I have to give something away.

But above all I do not burn them.

Just imagine that the camera and the lenses Mr. Key Fanigan proudly burned could be used by somebody who does not have the means to buy them and who really would like to have them.

It is a pity and a shame to demonstrate such pictures. It is beyond the limit of the photographic code of behaviour. This in Greece we call "hyvris" which means great insult.

Mr. Fanigan insulted by his photos and his vulgar pride insulted his fellow photographers and for that reason he must be expelled from this site.

Oh tempora oh mores (What times and what ethos) as the Romans said.

Dimitris V. Georgopoulos

mariosforsos · March 5, 2010

I concur and agree with Mr Georgopoulos... it's a sad day when someone feels (what?) pride at displaying images of a burning camera!!!! O tempora o mores indeed...!

dimitris_georgopoulos1 · March 5, 2010

I noticed that Mr. Mel Cox is in the pursue of the better image by aquiring more lenses.

I do think it is not the right approach. In the digital era it is not just the lens that counts but the body as well.

So Mel if you are not satisfied with the pictures you take try to improve on your technique, your post processing then upgrade to a better body and buy two pieces of top zooms.

I think they will suffice for the majority of your photographic sessions. With bodies like D90, D300/s and above you can make excellent use of high quality MF Nikkors along with the Carl Zeiss ZF line.

I wish you luck and inspiration.

Dimitris V. Georgopoulos

commtrd · March 5, 2010

Many thousands of dollars later after purchase of 11 lenses plus a D300 and a D700 I think that for the vast majority of folks the following kit would suffice very nicely: a D3s camera body, a 24-70 nikkor f2.8, and a 70-200 VRII Nikkor f2.8. Throw in a good tripod and a L-bracket for the camera, and there you have a very versatile and hi-quality kit that would do great for 99% of everything any amateur would ever shoot. If really into macro, then maybe add in a sigma 150 macro lens or a nikkor 200mm f4 macro lens.

I know how confusing it is for a new photographer due to the vast amount of lens / camera choices and brands available. But after spending WAY TOO MUCH MONEY on this stuff, I can honestly say that the above kit would cover almost every amateur's needs very well (in excess of their capabilities for sure) and the initial money spent would be for good top-notch equipment that would serve them well for many years. Problem is that no one knows this stuff until shooting many thousands of images, doing the post, thinking about which way to go etc.

And please, if one gets the urge to burn some old equipment, please give it to some kid or someone who otherwise could not afford any equipment at all. It's called paying it forward and is a much better way to get rid of old obsolete equipment than burning it. Even obsolete equipment can still take pictures after all.

andy a. · March 5, 2010

This is more interesting than I though it would be.

For me, most expensive: 400/2.8.

Least expensive: nikon body cap with a pinhole.

And a lot in between.

zoid · March 6, 2010

Whew. I'm only modest with my collection.

Nikon EM, MD-E, SB-15, 50mm f1.8 Series E

Nikon EM, MD-14, SB-15, 50mm f1.8 Series E

Nikon N2000

Nikon N2020, AF-50mm f1.8 (old plastic focus ring) ($1.75 at Goodwill. Had battery leak but cleaned up and works great. Lens has perfect glass.)

Nikon Black Body FA, MB-15 (Sold the farm for it many years ago. Don't regret it one bit.)

Nikon N90s, MF-26, MB-10 (bought new)

Nikon N90s, MB-10 (true Mint Condition off ebay $129.00)

Nikon N90s, MF-26, MB-10 (true Mint condition off ebay $85.00 --it kills me to think about what I paid for my first N90s setup...)

Nikon D100, MB-D100

Lenses:

Vivitar Variable Macro 2X teleconverter (it's a real piece of junk if ykwim ;-) )

Vivitar 28mm F2.5 (Kino made)

Vivitar 200mm F3.5 (Tokina Made needs AI'd)

Chinon made F-mount 135mm f2.8 (Single coated and came with the EM with the MD-E)

Tamron Adapt-all 135mm f2.5

Nikon AF 28mm f2.8D

Nikon AF 28-105 3.5-4.5D (bought new)

Nikon AF 28-70 F3.5-4.5D

Nikon AF 24-50 ($47 off ebay)

Nikon AF 50mm f1.8 (non-D. Bought new. Late version with rubber focus ring)

Nikon AF 35-70mm f3.3-4.5 (late version with rubber focus ring)

Nikon AF 70-210mm (non-D version)

Nikon AF 75-300mm (the push-pull with tripod mount)

Nikon 85mm f2

Nikon 105mm f2.5

Other:

PB-5 Bellows, PS-4 slide copier

Lots misc.. Sb-26, 27s, 50DXs,15s, 20, 18s, reversing rings filters..... Typical NAS stuff from the junk bins at photo stores.

Cheapest buy was the AF 50mm f1.8 on the N2020 for $1.75. Most expensive was the AF 28-105 that was bought new. Best deal was the AF 70-210 f4-5.6 for $49. Favorite is the 85 f2.

zoid · March 6, 2010

As far as burning cameras goes:

I found a Nikon L35 in a flea market 9 years ago for $8USD. I took it home, cleaned it up and ran a roll through it. It worked flawlessly. A couple of months later, I ended up giving it to a friend at work for his teenage daughter to use. I taught her the basics with how to use the camera. A few months later, I left that company.

Last year, I ran into my former co-worker only to find out that his daughter STILL has the camera, has ran almost 100 rolls of film through it and still uses it after graduating college. He told me that he could not believe how great the photos look out of that thing.

So giving a camera to a kid can be a great thing.

It's certainly can have a lot better outcome than burning them.

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