how many mm do you use?

E-R-I-C · Post by **E-R-I-C** » 29 Aug 2007, 12:56

28-80mm
70-300mm

+ the crop

Erik_7Xi · Post by **Erik_7Xi** » 02 Sep 2007, 22:31

I use my 70-200mm f/2.8L about 90% of the time.

tonno1970 · Post by **tonno1970** » 03 Sep 2007, 11:11

It's difficoult to say which is main used. For this hobby you need all the focal lenghts you can. Infact when you enter bases/airshows you need a wide zoom and medio tele zoom for static and taxyshots.
Here you are covered with the 17-85 but you need some more reach like a 70-xxx zoom.
For display / landing and take off shots youu'd better buy a fast prime.

Like many here I have covered quite all from 20 mm up to >400mm.

My most used lens is 300+1,4x as where I live here in Italy you can't stay so close to bases fences and I am obliged to do landing shots from far spots.

As many suggest a nice lens could be the 100-400/L and if you can't afford it you could go to 70-300 IS or 70-200/4L.
Another very good option is the sigma 100-300/4 EX. It seems to be a very good performer, on pair with canon L lenses.

ciao Giampaolo

Redskin301 · Post by **Redskin301** » 06 Sep 2007, 19:53

I'm working with the canon 100-400mm and the sigma 170-500mm

topgun1984 · Post by **topgun1984** » 08 Sep 2007, 09:49

on my fuji i have about 380 mm zoom capability and a teleconverter of 2.2 times... so do the math

...

it's quite handy

for some distance shot

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how many mm do you use?

How many mm do you use most when shooting a/c?