5 Most Used Lenses ?

What are your most used lenses of the past year ?

I've realised this last year that whatever I think of as my main lense(s) - is often wrong ! It really depends on the subject (naturally) and circumstances, but often what I like to do most is not what I get to do most often !

Anyway including work, family, friends, back-up to a pro and for shooting those subjects I like best, these are the five I have used most over the past year :

1. Sigma 10-20
2. Tamron 17-50/2.8
3. Pentax 43 Ltd
4. Tamron 90/2.8 di macro
5. Pentax DA*300

Probably...

1) Pentax 16-45/Tamron 17-50mm*
2) Sigma 10-20mm
3) Pentax A 80-200mm/F 70-210mm*
4) Tamron 90mm Macro
5) Pentax M 50mm f1.7

*Lenses substituted/upgraded during the year....

1. Nokton 58mm
2. Tamron 17-50mm
3. Sigma 10-20mm
4. Sigma 105mm
5. ...........

As above. probably.

In no particular order:

35-70/2.8 M
50/1.2 K
28/2 K
15/3.5 A
16-50/2.8 DA*

Kim

Again, in no particular order:

SMC Pentax-DA 18-55mm WR
SMC Pentax-DA 55-300mm
SMC Pentax-DA 35mm f2.4
SMC Pentax-DA 12-24mm
SMC Pentax-FA 50mm f1.4

In approximate order of most-used-ness.

Tamron 17-50 - far and away my most used lens
Tamron 90/2.5
Pentax 50/1.2
Sigma 10-20
Sigma 70-200

Pentax DFA 100 Macro (most used)
Pentax DA 12-24 (second most used)
Pentax DA 55-300
Pentax DA*50-135 (must use it more)
Pentax K 35mm f3.5

Pentax DA 18-55 AL II (80%)
Pentax A 50/1.7 (10%)
Pentax D FA 100/2.8 Macro (5%)
Sigma 70-300/4-5.6 APO DG(5%)

... and that concludes my list of lenses

DA*300
DA*16-50
Tamron 90mm Di
DA 17-70 (Dedicated Steam special lens!:lol
FA 135/2.8

But used every lens in the current kit at least once including the 8mm Fisheye.

John

Changes all the time, but over the past three months:

1. Sigma 50-150 f2.8 Most used by a country mile.
2. A 35-105 f3.5 There's a lot of overlap with the above, but I just love the old school rendering and it's as sharp as anything. Unfortunately with my MF skills it's pretty useless as a street lens.
3. = DA15 f4
FA35 f2
F50 f1.7

Pentax DA 18-55 AL II (lots better than many think)
Pentax M 75-150 (probably my favorite lens)
Sigma 24mm f2.8 SuperWide II (most used and very sharp)
Chinon 28mm f2.8 (still testing but looking good)
Rikenon 50mm f1.7 (even sharper than the Sigma 24mm)

Andrew

I've just been cooking up some EXIF analysis with exiftool, Lua, and Excel I was looking at whether to acquire the DA*16-50 (which is extremely tempting). However, a third of my images are in the 70-135mm, and a quarter in the 50-70mm range (and I probably don't want to keep changing DA* lenses all the time). A third of my shots are in the 16-50mm range.

As far as most used lens... it's very interesting!

For 2009:
* DA17-70 (46%)
* DA*50-135 (33%)
* DA12-24 (7%)
* DA55-300 (5%)
* FA50/1.4 (4%)

For 2010:
* DA*50-135 (41%)
* DA17-70 (26%)
* DA55-300 (11%)
* FA50/1.4 (11%)
* DA12-24 (6%)

For 2011 so far:
* DA17-70 (49%)
* DA*50-135 (26%)
* FA50/1.4 (10%)
* DA12-24 (8%)
* DA55-300 (6%)


I think you can see a pattern emerging there

(If you want any hints on pulling out this data, then let me know!)
Matt

Can't even remember what I was shooting last year, but this year:-

F* 250-600
DA* 60-250
DA* 16-50
DFA 100WR
DA 10-17

Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6
Sigma 24mm f2.8 Super-Wide II
Sigma 18-250
Tamron 90mm
Pentax-A smc 50mm f1.4

Samsung equivalent of the DFA100 Macro (My most used lens!)
Pentax DA*16-50 (The default lens for my main body)
Pentax DA55-300
Sigma 17-70 HSM OS (Because it lives on the spare body I take out on my bike ).
Pentax FA50 F1.7 (My default low light and compact lens) which I also find great for steam engines.)


Having the DA*16-50 as the default lens on my main body dates back to when I had an early version with very poor SDM performance. I was so fed up with it that I knew if I left it off for any length of time it would never be used again. Fortunately it got replaced, twice, and the current one, although once sent for repair is much better and happily gets used quite a lot.

Glyn