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What lens should I buy?

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exif data Jan-Sept 2008

Don’t worry, this isn’t my photo for today – it’s just an additional post while I try and get my shopping list in order.

I’ve been trying to work out what lens I should buy next, and this morning I realised that my gallery software collects exif data for each image and stores it in the database.  One sql statement and a spreadsheet later and it would appear that I shoot more photos at 135mm than I do any other focal length (which is actually where my lens performs least well!)  and 26-115mm seems to be a fairly even spread, slightly clustering around a 50mm full frame equivalent.

The sample size is too small for any real analysis (and is incomplete as it only represents the 139 images I have exif data for) , but I think I’d probably get most use out of a new 70-200mm keeping my current lens for the 18-70mm range.  Possibly adding a cheap 50mm prime to the mix.

Damn.

That’s the expensive solution!


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