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  Suggested Lenses for AF-100?

  Posted by Randy Burleson on April 14, 2011 at 5:06 pm

  What is your favorite lens or lenses for the AF-100? What are you using?

  How is the Olympus Zuiko 14-150 or the lumix 45-200mm?

  or maybe a Nikkor Zoom lens – 18 mm – 200 mm – F/3.5-5.6 – Nikon F

  I really don’t see us having the money to go with expensive Prime lenses so I am looking for a cheaper option. Always trying to get the most bang for the buck.
  Thanks for your suggestions and recommendations.

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  Guy Mcloughlin

  April 14, 2011 at 7:14 pm

  I’m currently shooting with a GH-2, and plan on buying an AF-100 later this summer. Here’s my current lens strategy:

  HAND-HELD / DAYLIGHT SHOOTING

  Panasonic 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6
  Panasonic 45-200mm f/4.0-5.6

  NOTE: I owned the Panasonic 14-140mm f/4.0-5.6 for a few months, but sold it because I found it to be awkward and large to shoot with, so I replaced it with the 14-45mm and 45-200mm.

  TRIPOD / STABILIZED SHALLOW DOF / LOW-LIGHT SHOOTING

  Voightlander 25mm f/0.95
  Carl Zeiss 50mm f/1.40 Nikon Mount with adapter

  LENSES I PLAN TO ADD

  Panasonic 7-14mm f/4.0 ( waiting for OIS version to come out )
  Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 ( unless something better comes from Panasonic or Olympus )
  Carl Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 Nikon Mount with adapter

  NOTE: I hope that some company comes out with a 12mm f/2.0 or faster lens this year.

  LOW COST LENSES

  If you are trying to buy lenses on a limited budget, I would start with the Panasonic 14-45mm and Panasonic 45-200mm lenses. These are sharp low cost lenses with built-in image stabilization.

  You also might look at buying the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 zoom with a Nikon mount ( not the VC version, as the image-stabilzation won’t work with the AF-100 ), which is a low cost sharp and fairly fast zoom lens. You will need to buy a Nikon —> Micro 4/3 adapter that has aperture control to use this lens.
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  Erik Naso

  April 14, 2011 at 7:49 pm

  I hear good things with the Olympus Zuiko line of lenses. They are pricey. The great thing about the AF-100 is it can use so many different lenses and the bad thing is it can use so many different lenses. If you have any older manual Nikon/Canon/Zeiss glass that would be a great start. Wide is tougher than standard and telephoto with the crop factor so a standard 50mm is more like 100mm. I would get fast lenses as well. Much better for low light and Shallow DOF.

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  Matt Gottshalk

  April 17, 2011 at 6:39 pm

  I have a full set of Nikon mount Zeiss primes for mine, but usually roll out with My Tokina 20-70mm F/2.6-2.8 and the Nikon 50-135mm F=f/3.5.

  If I need anything wider I put on the Lumix 7-14mm

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  Matt Gerard

  April 29, 2011 at 3:13 pm

  We’ve got a full set of Red primes and the 18-85 zoom that looks like a potato cannon when its mounted. Awesome lenses, aint cheap but man do they look good. Just shot 2 cam shoot with the red zoom on the A cam and the lumix zoom on the B cam (both AF100’s) and had a hard time balancing exposure for both as the red zoom is a 2.8 and the lumix is a 5.6+ when zoomed in. I think we ended up running the A can with red at ISO200 and the B cam with the lumix at ISO400 and it seemed to look OK on the production monitor. Ingesting the ftg now.

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