What is your favourite lens?

I find this a difficult question to answer. It also depends on what I photograph. And based on that I choose a lens, and in most situations I will also have a different favorite lens.

My 77mm 1.8 prime lens is my favorite. Small, light and beautiful bokeh. Also wonderfully sharp. By the way, I often photograph portraits.

weerd wrote on Tuesday 5 May 2026 at 11:56  | reply

Still 23mm 2.0 Fujinon. Extremely versatile, not too large and razor-sharp. Zooming in during post-processing presents hardly any problems

The 43 mm lens on my Leica Q3 43 is ideal for, among other things, street photography.
The 43 mm focal length roughly corresponds to how the human eye experiences perspective.
As a result, faces and objects look more realistic and natural.

The Canon 200-800mm for bird photography. Not the smallest lens, but by now I’m used to that and it offers many possibilities to photograph both small birds and larger (water)birds well.

I choose Nikon’s 14-30 mm Z lens for my landscape photos. Get very close to my foreground and then apply focus stacking and HDR or not.

weerd wrote on Tuesday 5 May 2026 at 12:53  | reply

Fujifilm x-t30iii

Currently crazy about my 50mm 1.8. However, if I were going on a long trip like in the past, where I don't know what I might encounter, then still my 24-240 3.5.

for my Sony 6600 I have several prime lenses for low-light conditions in theaters and portraits. However for everyday use:Sony 4/18-105.I am satisfied with the results.

I don't really have a favorite since I switched from DSLR to mirrorless. The lens I use most at the moment is the RF 100-400. A nice lens and not heavy, which makes it easy to take photos handheld; I used to occasionally use the Sigma 120-400, but it's extremely heavy (2kg) to work with handheld.
It also strikes me that RF lenses are somewhat lighter than EF lenses.

Nikkon Z 24-120mm F4 Very versatile
I use this for landscapes, portraits, table top and even in the theater (Z8 with high ISO)

It really depends on what I want to photograph. For horse photography and pets outdoors I use a 70-200 f2.8. I also use this lens for wildlife, but also a 150-600 f5-6.3 and, if possible to bring along, a 600mm f4. For cats that I photograph in small spaces at the shelter, I recently got a new camera (Canon EOS R7) with an 18-150 F3.5-6.3 kit lens.

If I can only take one lens, I put my 2.0/28 mm Summicron on the M240 body. It used to be a 2.0/35 mm, but that's been sitting in the cupboard these past few years.

Bram, my legs aren't that good anymore. The exception proves the rule, I suppose.

On my full-frame camera, usually the RF 24-105mm