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What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens

  
 
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p.3 #1 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


2 hands, 1 business and 1 pleasure. ;-)

35-150 Tamron - business
400 2.8 GM - pleasure



Aug 28, 2025 at 02:31 PM
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p.3 #2 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


The last time I had cold dead hands I was using a 200-600 and photographing owls in Canada in the winter. Minus 10 degrees. Fortunately I have my fully functioning hands back now. And my images are to keep.


Aug 28, 2025 at 05:42 PM
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p.3 #3 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Batis 135. For me, this is the lens that one buys a camera for. Loxia 25 is a close second.


Aug 28, 2025 at 06:20 PM
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p.3 #4 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


35GM and 85 Sigma. Could not do a wedding without them. The 85 especially.


Aug 28, 2025 at 07:04 PM
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p.3 #5 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Hard to choose, but if I could only have two prime lenses to cover all my needs (family, scenery, buildings), I could use Loxia 21 and Voigtlander 35APO.


Aug 28, 2025 at 07:19 PM
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p.3 #6 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens



This is like asking me which of my kids is my favorite.



Aug 28, 2025 at 09:14 PM
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p.3 #7 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Right now 50-150 f2


Aug 29, 2025 at 03:14 AM
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p.3 #8 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


My current favourites are:

For general shooting:
Voigtlander FE 21mm f3.5
Voigtlander FE 50mm f2 APO

For portraits:
Sirui Aurora FE 85mm f1.4

J



Aug 29, 2025 at 05:14 AM
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p.3 #9 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Surprised at the number of manual focus lenses making the list.


Aug 29, 2025 at 09:45 AM
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p.3 #10 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


If it is supposed to be my only lens:
- Voigtländer 35/f2 AP0



Aug 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
 


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p.3 #11 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Batis 25


Aug 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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p.3 #12 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Voigt 35/2 APO-L

If I had to have a single lens for the rest of my life...



Aug 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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p.3 #13 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Any variety of 70-200 or 100-400 would cover most of my needs. If forced to commit to a specific lens it would have to the Sony FE 70-200mm F4 Macro G OSS II as long as I can have a 1.4x TC too.


Aug 29, 2025 at 01:44 PM
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p.3 #14 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


Canon 16-35mm f/4L IS
Tamron 85mm f/1.8 VC



Aug 31, 2025 at 05:35 AM
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p.3 #15 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


300GM as long as I can keep my TCs with it. I’ll let the 600GM go before the 300.


Aug 31, 2025 at 07:38 AM
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p.3 #16 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens



Thought about this quite a bit. For E mount, I'm choosing a lens that is near my favorite focal length. It's discontinued, so it's harder and harder to come by new, and it took me a lot of work to find a very well centered copy. So I'm going with the....

Zeiss Loxia 25mm f/2.4

On the Fuji side, I only have 2 lenses, so it's quite a bit easier. Going with the...

Fujifilm Fujinon 20-35mm f/4 R WR



Aug 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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p.3 #17 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


tsdevine wrote:
This is like asking me which of my kids is my favorite.


Surely you have a favorite kid too.



Aug 31, 2025 at 04:36 PM
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p.3 #18 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


JohnJ wrote:
Surely you have a favorite kid too.


Depends on the day of the week...they both have their moments.



Aug 31, 2025 at 04:53 PM
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p.3 #19 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


tsdevine wrote:
Depends on the day of the week...they both have their moments.


So it's (really) the same as lenses.



Aug 31, 2025 at 05:07 PM
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p.3 #20 · What is your 'Cold Dead Hands' lens


timgangloff wrote:
2 hands, 1 business and 1 pleasure. ;-)

35-150 Tamron - business
400 2.8 GM - pleasure


+1 for the Tamron, but I have no photo business so it's personal for me .

Another vacation past, and again I find this to be my favorite travel lens as well. It just makes me not miss my primes most of the time.



Aug 31, 2025 at 05:07 PM
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