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Peire wrote:
Well,I have and always used to have multiple lenses with the same focal length and no mental weight problems whatsoever.The reason why is that they are not identical in pure technical terms and first of all each has different character and colour rendition.I pick them up depending on which of their features I currently need.
For example,my current 35mm FF lenses setup:
Zeiss Loxia Distagon 35/2 - compact,manual lens with typical Zeiss overall rendition
Zeiss Distagon 35/1.4 ZA - fast autofocus Zeiss lens with typical Zeiss overall rendition.Beautifull,smooth bokeh wide open on close distances
Sony GM 35/1.4 - fairly compact,fast lens with excellent GM built/image quality and virtually no major flaws from f1.4.Benchmark,modern 35/1.4 lens
Voigtlander Nokton 35/1.2 FE - very fast,compact,manual lens with magical rendering between f1.2 and f2,4.Stopped down it is an excellent overall performer,behaving like a top modern lens
Voigtlander Apo Lanthar 35/2 - compact,manual lens with excellent IQ from wide open.Different colour/sharpness/microcontrast compared to Loxia 35/2
Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35/1.4 - fast,compact,manual lens with old school overall rendering and bubble bokeh on close ups
Similar story with other focal lengths.I would love to see 200mm/macro,135mm and 16mm Loxia,35mm,50mm and 200mm/macro Batis and/or 75-90mm,135mm and 180-200mm Voigtlander in FE mount
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Yes, I also have multiple copies of the same or similar focal length lenses, though not quite as many as I think you do. I do sometimes worry that it is wasteful, so I am glad to hear from you about this. My reasons for having multiples are similar to yours. Each of the lenses in my multiples are unique and give a different experience of picture-taking and favor different subjects and often result in different types of images.
There are focal lengths that I really enjoy shooting--for me it is 35mm to 135mm, with a concentration of activity in the 40mm to 85mm range. This is perhaps a result of my interests, which are mainly people, landscapes, travel, street, and still lifes. But it is also heavily influenced by my experiences growing up shooting film on SLRs, and the centrality of the 35mm, 50-58mm, and 135mm focal lengths to that era of image-making and the works by the great classical photographers of the 35mm format. Those lenses are still the sources of the photographs I like to look at most, even here on FM, and I have multiples of lenses in all of those focal lengths.
While I have do have multiple similar focal lengths or fields of view, there are many categories of lenses that I have little interest in owning. I don't own very wide lenses apart from the Batis 18mm. I don't own anything longer than an adapted Canon EF 200L, which I rarely use. I don't own a macro. I don't own a 70-200 zoom and while I have a standard and a wide (16-35) zoom, I don't use them very much. I am happiest with a 40, a 50-55, or an 85 on my camera.
Finally, another reason I keep multiples is because I work very hard to get good copies of my lenses and once I have one I hate to give it up. More than once, I have sold a copy of a lens only to buy it back from the original buyer or sometimes by tracing it 2 or 3 times through those to whom it was subsequently sold.
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