Photo gear wish list

[olegvolk]

Originally published at VolkStudio Blog. You can comment here or there.

Panasonic GH3 (or a used G2 if I am being realistic).

Olympus 60mm macro lens and 45/1.8 lenses.

Canon 70-200/2.8

In order to get money for these acquisition, I’d like to get some of my older gear sold and even dropping the prices on them. Please buy something:

Canon 300/4 IS

Comments

[tihar]

In Russia and using Pentax :)
now in search of good "brigth" lens for making daughter photos :)
may be U as professional could recomend lens parameters? :)

[olegvolk]

If digital, then something with 85-100mm equivalent angle of view would work well. For APS-C sized sensors, 70/2.4 or 77/1.8 would work well. For versatility, 100/2.8 macro would be ideal. Lighting ends up being more important than the lens.

[tihar]

http://www.avito.ru/moskva/fototehnika/obektiv_vivitar_50_f2_116656559

what you could tell about?
for pentax k-x
in fully manual mode

[olegvolk]

No autofocus and slightly short focal length. No idea of the optics or build quality, probably adequate. I'd suggest something longer unless you do all photos indoors.

[cramer]

What's your opinion of the LX3?

[olegvolk]

Overall, I like it. Simple, intuitive interface with mostly physical controls. Example of results: http://olegvolk.net/blog/2011/12/01/todays-snapshots/ Good, fast lens. Close macro. Great battery life. Has a hot shoe. I've published images taken with it. Noise looks like film grain -- I used it quite a bit to imitate 1940s photos. This was made with LX3: