Your least used lens and why?

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Lenses owned: 17-40, 24-105, 50 1.4, 70-200 2.8, 100mm macro.

My least used lens is my 100mm f2.8 macro lens.

- I don't shoot much macro stuff - I now turn down commercial stuff that involves small objects, just not my thing.
- Although heralded as a good portrait lens its too slow to focus for taking pics of kids unless they're sitting still.
- My 70-200 2.8 does a better job in all areas.
- I used it at the last wedding just for novelty value but that's the first time since 2008!!

I think it's days are numbered.
 
24mm PC, only used it a few times but then I haven't been out doing any landscape stuff for ages
 
the 18-55 kit lens, never gets used now
 
probably my ef 50mm f1.8 is used the least - simply because although it is a nice sharp lens at f2.8 the colour and contrast don't come anywhere near my 100mm f2.8 macro or 135 f2.
 
Jayst84 said:
50mm 1.8 because I own a 24-70 L and rarely need to shoot below f/2.8.
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Totally. Same for me. In fact, i've just lent mine to a friend so he can have a bash with it at a wedding reception.

Lenses: Sigma 10-20, Canon 24-70 f2.8 L, Canon 70-200 f4 L IS, Canon 50 f1.8, Lensbaby Composer.

My least used lens is my Lensbaby composor, but I do really like it.
 
Lenses Owned:

10-22, 17-55/f2.8 IS, 70-200/f4 IS, 28/f1.8, 50/f1.8, 100/f2.8 macro

Least used - probably the 50/f1.8.

Most used is the 17-55/f2.8 as it's usually what's on my camera when I go out. Looking at the focal lengths I shoot though, I do seem to do a lot at either end of it's range so I might be better off taking the 10-22 and the 50 instead.

I do find myself engineering situations to use the 70-200 as it's so good but just a bit long (on a crop) for a lot of the stuff I shoot.
 
Current stable

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L
Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 fisheye
Canon EF 35mm f/2
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

The fisheye gets used the least, partly because the effect gets a bit tedious if it's over-used. However, when I need it, I'm glad it's there. I'm certainly not going to sell it.

As for the most-used, according to my Lightroom Library, it's a close call between the 70-200 and the 50mm.
 
It would have been my Tamron 90mm 2.8 macro but I've just sold it. Can't see the point in keeping a lens I'm not using at the moment when the funds could be used for other gear. The rest are pretty evenly used.

Sigma 100-300 f/4
Sigma 70-200 f/2.8
Nikon 17-55 f/2.8
 
Currently a dead heat between the Canon 50mm f/1.8 and the Canon 17-85IS kit lens.. neither gets a look-in compared to the 30mm f/1.4.. so much so I should probably sell them both.
 
It would be the 70-200 2.8L IS for me, because I mostly shoot birds and I have two longer primes. I hang onto it though becuae it's just too good a lens, amd I know I'd regret it as soon as I parted with it.
 
My issued 14-24mm Nikkor...
Too wide for most of what I do - If I need to 'go wider' than my 'most-used' 24-70, I'll use my own 17-35mm...
 
Siggy 50mm f1.4 - I'm just not a lover of primes (except my macro lens) I just find zooms far more flexible in the field
 
Has to be my Sigma 50mm 2.8 macro which happens to be my fastest lens!
Shoot macro once in a blue moon, considering selling it, but cant bring myself to do so (yet)!
 
TinaC said:
My least used is the 18-55 kit lens as I can't get good results with it.

My most used is my Sigma 18-200 as for weight and size it is most versatile for what I do and also I know it best. So an excellent walkabout.
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Same here, my siggy 18-200 gets used nearly all the time (as a walkabout lens), where as my 18-55 kit lens is never used
 
mines my sigma 30mm 1.4

Although it is superb I don't use that range all that much, I find my tamron 17-50 2.8 is more convienient and when doing portraits I much prefer my 85 1.8 and my 100mm 2.8L macro
 
The least used lens is the 17-85mm IS kit lens from the 40d - too big and heavy for a walkaround. I prefer the 18-55mm IS kit lens which is nearly as good optically and a lot, lot lighter.
 
DDP said:
(sorry if this has been done before)

Lenses owned: 17-40, 24-105, 50 1.4, 70-200 2.8, 100mm macro.

My least used lens is my 100mm f2.8 macro lens.

- I don't shoot much macro stuff - I now turn down commercial stuff that involves small objects, just not my thing.
- Although heralded as a good portrait lens its too slow to focus for taking pics of kids unless they're sitting still.
- My 70-200 2.8 does a better job in all areas.
- I used it at the last wedding just for novelty value but that's the first time since 2008!!

I think it's days are numbered.
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i,ll happily swap for my 50mm :lol:
 
No-name 500mm mirror lens.

Why? Because my Sigma 150 - 500 is better in every way apart from size.

After that, probably my 180mm f/2.8 which has been made almost redundant by a Sigma 70-200 f/2.8. The Nikkor prime is marginally sharper when pixel peeped but the zoom is far more versatile.
 
105 macro as i just have no time or need to use it tbh following that it's probably the 10-20 because my mates yoinked it :)
 
My 50mm f1.8, because I rarely need 1.8. My Sigma 24-60 f2.8 and Sigma 70mm f2.8 Macro seem to fit my needs a little better.
 
CT said:
It would be the 70-200 2.8L IS for me, because I mostly shoot birds and I have two longer primes. I hang onto it though becuae it's just too good a lens, amd I know I'd regret it as soon as I parted with it.
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If you ever want to sell it, Please keep me in mind.:thumbs:
 
used to own a tamron 17-50 , nikkor 55-200vr, 50 1.8, and the 55-200vr was my least used lens since I don't do telephoto :(

Sold all of them and got a whole bunch of new lenses, in which I use them equally :D
 
Currently Own:
  • EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
  • EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM
  • EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
  • EF 50mm f/1.8
  • EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 II USM

Least used is the 75-300, and only for the reason that I just don't have an eye for distant shots! But now and again when the occasion calls for it (like being up Cad West) the 75-300 has served me well which is why haven't replaced it with something with a red ring :p
 
canon 100mm macro- nice and sharp for portraits but since i got the 70-200 2.8l that goes on instead as I don't do any macro stuff nowadays.
 
Strangely I never seem to use my 70-200 anymore... absolutely love the 100-400 and hardly have it off the camera!
 
Interesting, it's made me think what I use the most.

Current crop:

Sigma 14mm
Sigma 24mm
Nikon 28-70
Nikon 70-300

Out of all these, it's probably the 24mm that gets used the least, although it's very useful in low light. I regard my lenses (and all my equipment) as just tools in a tool box, and I just pick the most appropriate one for the job. After all, you wouldn't use a hacksaw to bang a nail into a wall would you?
 
On my film body its my 50mm F2, There's no room to carry more than two lenses in my bag, and I like to carry both a wide angle (35mm) and a telephoto (135mm) The 50 just doesn't fit in for walkabout shooting, not at the moment anyway.

On the 450D Its the nifty (I have something against 50mm primes!) I use it for low light shooting indoors, but other than that, the kit lens gets the use.
 
I have (all nikon):
55mm f/3.5 Ai'd micro P.C. (not perspective control, just some kinda coating)
24mm f/2.8 Ais
105mm f/2.5 Ais
50mm f/1.4 Ai
18-55 mm VR kit lens
55-200 mm VR basically a kit lens

and the least used is the 50mm because I was an unweary first time eBay buyer and spent £100 on it and landed my self with a lens with fungus... :/ it now spends its time concealed away with both caps on permenantly to try to avoid it spreading, only coming out on special occasions when I really really need f/1.4
 
My least used was my 50mm 1.8 until the other day, I had hardly used it at all until then and now I have found its true potential, although that is until I get a wide angle zoom with a shallow DOF.

I do have a never used lens which I see no purpose to anymore, a 75-300 kit lens. Obsolete since the arrival of the 70-200 2.8 and the 135-400. It just lives in the cupboard sad and lonely.
 
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