{"id":1949,"date":"2009-11-06T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2009-11-06T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:40:22","slug":"my-all-time-favorite-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/photography\/my-all-time-favorite-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"My All Time Favorite Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMy All Time Favorite Lenses
\nAs I have worked with many of the SLR’s and Medium Format camera’s out there, I want to share with you some of my favorites.\u00a0 In my career I used Nikon, Canon, Pentax SLR’s and all of the Medium Format stuff out there.
\nMy choices are based on my most frequent go for lenses when doing actual projects in the past and present.
\nNikon: 85mm f\/1.4 Nikkor Al-S
\nNikon: 28mm f\/2.0 Nikkor Al-S
\nNikon: 50mm f\/1.2 Nikkor Al-S
\nNikon: 105mm f\/2.5 Nikkor Al-S
\nPentax: smc Pentax DA 40mm f\/2.8 Limited
\nPentax: smc Pentax FA 31mm f\/1.8 Limited
\nPentax: smc Pentax DA Star 16-50mm f\/2.8 ED AL (IF) SDM
\nPentax: smc Pentax FA 50mm f\/1.4
\nPentax: smc Pentax DA 12-24 f\/4.0 ED AL (IF)
\nCanon: EF 17-40mm f\/4.0 L USM
\nCanon: EF 35mm f\/2.0
\nCanon: EF 28mm f\/2.8
\nCanon: TS-E 45mm f\/2.8
\nCanon: TS-E 90mm f\/2.8
\nAnd of course, not to forget two of my favorite 3rd party lenses,
\nTamron: SP AF 28-75 f\/2.8 XR Di LD (IF)
\nTamron: SP AF 90mm f\/2.8 Di 1:1 Macro
\nWell, there you have it.
\nBen
\nHere are 2 instructional videos discussing the attributes and rendering of different focal lengths.
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My All Time Favorite Lenses As I have worked with many of the SLR’s and Medium Format camera’s out there, I want to share with you some of my favorites.\u00a0 In my career I used Nikon, Canon, Pentax SLR’s and all of the Medium Format stuff out there. My choices are based on my most frequent go for lenses when doing actual projects in the past and present. Nikon: 85mm f\/1.4 Nikkor Al-S Nikon: 28mm f\/2.0 Nikkor Al-S Nikon: 50mm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37,654,168],"tags":[714,717,718],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/retouchD1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-vr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13733,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/photography\/the-benjamin-kanarek-blog-2010-camera-lens-favorites-part-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1949,"position":0},"title":"The Benjamin Kanarek Blog 2010 Camera Lens Favorites Part 3 Updated","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"February 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My Favorite Fixed Focal Length Lenses It is enough of a challenge to choose your favorite zoom lenses, but to have to choose only one fixed focal length lens from each brand is an exercise in decision making that most would find difficult to make. 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