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 p.3 #4 · What is your Canon Family Tree / Genealogy? Here is mine: | |
April 2007: the first Canon DSLR I got was the 30D (with the 17-55mm lens). I hated the camera with a passion and it paid me in kind by breaking a couple of times. The lens was also not entirely reliable. Both were sold as soon as I got anything to replace them with.
June 2008: I got the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens that serves me well to this day.
November 2009: I switched to Canon 1D Mark II N, and it was such a revelation, despite the resolution being nominally the same. The camera served me for 4.5 years, and went around the world with me.
April 2014: I got my then-dream camera: the Canon 1D Mark IV! The 1D II N quickly went for sale, and the 1D4 served me for 8.5 years until I got my current main camera. The 1D4 is still being used sporadically as backup, though I've been starting to have ideas about getting rid of it (and most of the other old gear).
September 2014: I added the second camera for the first time (pardon the pun), the 650D. I gave it away to my wife the next year, since she wanted a DSLR. She still has it, but I'm also thinking of getting rid of it.
November 2015: My present photographic job started, and coincidentally, I used the severance payment from the previous defunct job to buy the Canon 16-35mm f/4L IS lens that also serves me well to this day.
October 2017: a colleague (now shooting for Reuters) sold me his beater 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS lens, the first version, which also serves me to this day.
September 2018: Since I no longer had the 650D as the second camera, I bought the second second camera, the 80D. It also ended up in my wife's possession 4 years later, when I got a new primary camera and the 1D4 ended up as backup at best. Also debating if it should be thrown into the pot and the money put towards a new and better unit.
October 2021: I got my third favourite lens - the Tamron 85mm f/1.8 VC. It's a little redundant if I were to use it alongside the 70-200, but as a part of a kit with either the 16-35mm and the Tamron 45mm that I also have (but don't happen to love quite as much), or the 16-35mm and 100-400mm, it shines.
November 2022: I got the Nikon Z9 to use as the primary camera. All Canon EF mount lenses are now being used via an adapter. Now, 3.5 years on, I only have two native Z-mount lenses, and two adapters, to have me covered; the rest is all EF mount, the same good old lenses. Not in any hurry to part from most of these, and especially not the 4 abovementioned "highlight" ones. Besides, most of my lenses are old and/or beaten-up, so I would've had to sell them for peanuts anyway, or give them away for free.
(Looking at the list above, it looks like all of my most important gear decisions were taken either in April or sometime in the fall,  )
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