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My A850 cost less than 500€ on ebay.

I use Sigma 24/2.8, Minolta 17-35/2.8-4 and Voigtlander 19-35/3.5-4.5.

<p>I'd say it seems to have been kept underwater.</p>

<p>DX is a problem, not a solution.</p>

Mine arrived today<div></div>

<p>OM4 with 35 f2.8 is my current favourite, even though I never forget my first camera, OM10 with 50 f1.8.</p>

<p>I like the 5D with 35mm f2 very much.</p>

<p>I'm considering SONY too. Because it combines high tehnology with affordable prices, and I already own some of its glass. Canon should also consider built-in stabilization instead of their current IS.</p>

<p>The Jupiter is a german Carl Zeiss pre-war design. Your results could even look better if you did choose a black and white film.</p>

<p>I doubt the end product of Leica photography, image quality, will be any better than, say, Canon's.</p>

<p>If you were to take the pictures of your kids yourself this problem wouldn´t arise. That's what I do.</p>

<p>R.I.P.</p>

<p>I'm on the market for a EF 85 f1.8 for my 5D portraits too. In the meantime I'm using manual focus tamron 90 and 90 elmarit for this purpose and I like the results. Tele-zooms like the 80-200 or 28-200 can do it too.</p>

<p>I'm very happy with my R2 and R2M.</p>

<p>I fing 8-bit is not enough for film scanning and processing. Sorry!</p>

I use a canon xt with a 28 or 24 mm lens on it. Either canon or leica, or zeiss, or zuiko. Bought a nikon 28 but couldnt fix it to the adapter to the mount... Then I use it as I'd use say a m2.

I use a 28-105 with reasonable results and added a 24mm for wider compositions. Both lenses were cheaper than the 24-105 and it seems the 24 is sharper and more luminous than the L lens. Not to mention that both lenses are smaller and lighter too.

Yesterday I got a tamron 28-200xr on ebay because it cost €89 only and I gather it may be interesting to have a longer focal length sometimes.

I don't like carrying around a long heavy lens, it is esthetically unpleasant, almost obscene.

In a small room I prefer the 2.8/24mm on a 1.6 crop sensor. The 2/35mm on a full frame.

The 1.8/50mm is good in both types of sensor, either as a normal lens or a short tele.

I find it good to have my 3.5-4.5/28-105mm zoom handy for some situations.

Canon glass is generally great, the full frame sensor is much better than the small, though, and it show in your pictures.

Tamron 18-50/2,8 is the only small frame lens in your bag. If I were you I'd invest in full frame lenses that cover these focals and sell the Tamron. That said my most recent acquisition was the Canon 35/2. Still in the mail...

The decision to produce crop sensor cameras was commercial. Much will depend on the preferences of leading

users as to the end of its commercial cycle. Even if these sensors are cheaper to build and sell trade has never

turned its back to the percieved gains a new full frame euphoria could generate.

My kit on a xt is a 24/2.8, a 35/2 and 50/1.8. Plus the kit lens, a 28-105/3.5-4.5 USM II and a Cosina 19-35/3.5-4.5 clone. Also a Canon 80-200mm. All these lenses are relaitively cheap but all perform well too.

I use the kit lens together with a 80-200 and added a 50-1.8. Lately I found a 28-105 II on ebay for less than €100. So far I'm happy with this set.

Hands down I'd go for the full frame camera.

A: M6, M2, CL and IIf.