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<blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 665604" data-attributes="member: 7240"><p>I think you should be okay doing press photography with just two zoom lenses, for example 16-35/4 or 17-35/2.8 in the wide end and 70-200/2.8 in the long end. I personally own about 50 lenses of which only 4 are zooms.</p><p></p><p>In your own photography, do all the prime lenses need to be autofocus? Nikon has manufactured excellent manual focus lenses, some of which are still extremely coveted and some are "sleepers" that you can get cheap despite their excellent image quality. I have about 25 manual focus Nikkors (of which 11 are between 50-58 mm LOL, don't ask). Manual focusing is different, it is more demanding but at the same time it is much more rewarding. </p><p></p><p>For example manual focus Nikkors 35mm f/1.4, 50mm f/1.2, 85mm f/1.4, 105mm f/1.8 and 105mm f/2.5 and 135mm f/2 are excellent lenses. They have their own signature and character in the rendering, which might actually be an advantage since your pictures won't look like everybody else's, who use the latest modern highly corrected lenses which tend to produce images that all look the same.</p><p></p><p>I did a short photo walk with my daughter the other day and I went with four manual focus lenses. I divided the images in four consecutive posts: <a href="https://nikonites.com/prime/24774-lets-see-those-manual-focus-lenses-4.html#post665454" target="_blank">https://nikonites.com/prime/24774-lets-see-those-manual-focus-lenses-4.html#post665454</a></p><p></p><p>Please have a look if you like. There are some samples from 50/1.8, 55/1.2, 58/1.2 Noct and 105/2.8 Micro. The images are straight-out-of-camera to retain the rendering of the lens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pforsell, post: 665604, member: 7240"] I think you should be okay doing press photography with just two zoom lenses, for example 16-35/4 or 17-35/2.8 in the wide end and 70-200/2.8 in the long end. I personally own about 50 lenses of which only 4 are zooms. In your own photography, do all the prime lenses need to be autofocus? Nikon has manufactured excellent manual focus lenses, some of which are still extremely coveted and some are "sleepers" that you can get cheap despite their excellent image quality. I have about 25 manual focus Nikkors (of which 11 are between 50-58 mm LOL, don't ask). Manual focusing is different, it is more demanding but at the same time it is much more rewarding. For example manual focus Nikkors 35mm f/1.4, 50mm f/1.2, 85mm f/1.4, 105mm f/1.8 and 105mm f/2.5 and 135mm f/2 are excellent lenses. They have their own signature and character in the rendering, which might actually be an advantage since your pictures won't look like everybody else's, who use the latest modern highly corrected lenses which tend to produce images that all look the same. I did a short photo walk with my daughter the other day and I went with four manual focus lenses. I divided the images in four consecutive posts: [URL]https://nikonites.com/prime/24774-lets-see-those-manual-focus-lenses-4.html#post665454[/URL] Please have a look if you like. There are some samples from 50/1.8, 55/1.2, 58/1.2 Noct and 105/2.8 Micro. The images are straight-out-of-camera to retain the rendering of the lens. [/QUOTE]
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