SGinNorcal wrote:
I really like shooting that way. I'll take one lens and try to see everything in that focal length. But I'll admit that sometimes I stare at my lenses looking for inspiration for a few minutes before selecting one for that outing. Its a very different question to me, choosing one for the day vs. choosing one for every single day.
That's generally my MO too. I anticipate the subject types and bring primes based on that.
These days I am trying to get the camera small enough to always have.
18/2, it's just so good. One of my all-time favorites.
The OG 35/1.4 is a close second, it just has a ton of personality.
People think I'm crazy, but the XC35/2 is fantastic when paired with a small and light body like the XE's.
18 and 35 pair excellently. I really liked carrying the 18/2 and XC35 on my XE4. LIGHT, small, same fstop, simple.
I think 18 and 23 are too close personally. I would never carry both a 28 and 35mm prime on a FF setup, unless they were VERY unique lenses from each other.
gdanmitchell wrote:
There are a lot of potentially useful pairings (and ”triplettings”) with small Fujifilm primes, including that 18mm and 35mm combo.
I get a lot of mileage out of a trio: 14mm f/2.8, 27mm f/2.8, and 50mm f/2.
It is kind of subjective, but I feel that aiming for a roughly 2:1 focal length ratio among prime lenses isn’t a bad target.
FWIW at this point in the convo, I generally agree with the 2:1 focal gapping for my style of shooting with primes. With me, it's now down to two, a 25 and 56; and if I decided to add another prime, it wouldn't be a 12, it would be a small, light wide zoom -- like the Tamron 11-20 -- which I did recently acquire and am surprisingly pleased with .
Anyway, the main comment I wanted to add is that many years ago Linhoff came out with a suggestion on how to buy lenses for large format photographers. They said the first should be roughly equal to the format diagonal; the second should be roughly equal to the format small side dimension; and the third should be roughly 2.5x the long side dimension. In Fuji APS-c, this formula would render the 16mm, 27mm and 56mm trio, which is hard to argue against.
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