Every Day Carry Kit

tromboads · Expire: 2015-10-01

+1 for the comments towards generally wondering and taking 1x lens, 1x camera and just, getting on with it Smile

Some of my favourite wonderings and photos from wonderings, have been about just that. It doesn't even seem to matter if the ergonomics are particularly good or bad, you just have to get on with it, so that's fun Smile

Strong memory of using a K10 and a broken Pentax M 35 f3.5 (aperture was slow or something) to capture a corrugated roof of all things.

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Actually this conversation is troubling, urge to collect M42 glass and walk around my city rising!

D1N0 · Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 2491

I wouldn't perma adapt m42 lenses because I would have to buy a new adapter for every one of what must be approaching a hundred or so. I just put an adapter on the ones I take with me. K-mount in my case, so the lens doesn't get larger. You do need to remove the little mounting spring, otherwise the adapter will stay in the camera when you unmount the lens.

alex_d · Joined: 19 Jan 2019 Posts: 322

for just daily walk outside im taking the smallest / lightest setup available,

sometimes i take another lens (with/without a body),

but its most of the time based around m39 and pergear 25/1.8 as a wide/small/light lens.

Occasional excursion accompanied with Summi 40/2, or AR 40/1.8

So during the colder days I can put everything in a jacket (m65 is ideal for that).

..al on Fuji E / T bodies

Paulius · Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Posts: 321 Location: Connecticut

My small everyday Lowepro bag is filled with a set of lenses and Sony A7R, or Sony A7R2 body:

1) One wide angle lens (could be Hexanon 21/4 or Distagon 25/2,8 ), but recently I prefer Sigma/Sony 19mm crop formate. It is small, lightweight, autofocus, extremely sharp and you can crop image vertically, square, or horizontally, cutting black corners away.

2) Componon-S 50/2,8 or even smaller Ektar 44/3,5 on E bayonet helicoid.

3) Bellow with set of: Componon-S 100/4,5, Kodak Ektar 127/4,5 and Apo-Geronon 210/9 .Lenses are mounted with Nikon bayonets (the bellow is Nikon from old time), rear end with adapter goes to Sony E-mount.

Package is compact, covering all ranges, glass is excellent, no distortions, or CA, weighted like SLR camera with a middle size zoom lens.

On opposite side is heavy artillery, Canon 70-200 f2,8L and 17-40 f4L, autofocus works with adapter on A7R2 only.
But it is another story.

stevemark · Joined: 29 Apr 2011 Posts: 3754 Location: Switzerland

Here a few suggestion:

1.) My "real world walk around kit" (not MF though): Sony (Zeiss) 2.8/16-35mm and Sony (Minolta) 2.8/70-200mm APO G SSM
2.) My walk around kit twenty years ago (not MF as well): Minolta AF 2.8/20mm, Minolta AF 1.4/50mm, Minolta AF 2.8/100mm Macro, Minolta AF 2.8/200mm APO G

Now the MF suggestions - Minolta first Wink

:
1.) MC 1.8/35mm plus MC 1.7/85mm (very nice handling, smooth focusing, good performace)
2.) MC 2.8/21mm, MC 1.4/50mm, MC 2.5/100mm, MC 4/200mm
3.) MD 2.8/20mm, MD 2.8/35mm or 2/50mm, MD 2/85mm or 2.5/100mm, MD 4/200mm (pretty lightweight)
4.) MD 2/28mm, MD 1.2/50mm, MD 2/135mm or 2.8/200mm (fast lenses / available light)

Now Canon nFD:
5.) 2.8/24mm, 1.4/50mm and 1.8/85mm, maybe also 4/200mm IF ("reportage")
6.) 2/24mm, 1.2/50mm L, 1.2/85mm L, 2/135mm or 2.8/200mm (available light)
7.) 20-35mm L and 80-200mm L

MF Nikkors:
8.) 3.5/20mm, 2/50mm or 1.8/50mm, 2.5/100mm (relatively small; good lenses)
9.) 2/24mm, 1.4/35mm, 1.2/55mm, 1.8/105mm, 2/135mm or 2.8/180mm ED (fast lenses; be aware that the 24mm and 35mm are quite poor performers even stopped down; the 180ED is exellent, and both the 1.2/55 and 1.8/105 give very nice portraits)

Topcon RE:
10.) 4/20mm, 1.8/58mm or 3.5/58mm Macro, 2.8/100mm (these are the best RE lenses i know, but I don't know the 85mm!)

Konica AR:
11.) 4/21mm, 3,5/28mm (7L), 1.4/50mm or 1.4/57mm, 3.2/135mm (all are solid performers)
12.) 3.5/28mm and 1.8/85mm (plus maybe 2.5/135mm)

Mamyia SX (M42):
13.) 2.8/28mm, 1.8/55mm or 2/50mm, 1.8/85mm, 2.8/135mm (surprisingly good lenses!)

Zeiss CY:
14.) 2.5/25mm, 1.4/50mm, 4/80-200mm ("low price" Zeiss set)

Mamiya CS:
15.) 2.8/21mm, 2.8/28mm, 1.4/50mm (very small lenses) and maybe the 3.8/80-200mm

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Doc Sharptail · Joined: 23 Nov 2020 Posts: 987 Location: Winnipeg Canada

A few changes since my last contribution here:

Current carry kit is now the D-810 body, and also a 300mm f 4.5 AI-s nikkor.
I may need a slightly larger bag.
I find I'm shooting a bit more with the full frame, and would really like to add one of the old zoom nikkors to the kit, just for the heck of it.

The rendering of the 50mm f2 ai 3 screw long prong nikkor seems to have a sweet spot, around the 20-40 foot mark.
The rendering is un-mistakable for this lens, and I like it a lot.

The 55mm f 3.5 micro-nikkor P still sees the most use, out of all my lenses.

I have sort of a weird relationship with the 28mm f 3.5 nikkor.
I tend to need it when it's not in the bag. When I have it with me, I can find no earthly use for it Rolling Eyes

-D.S.

bluedxca93 · Joined: 19 May 2021 Posts: 67

Use a eos 2000d and aps-c:

Vivitar 2.8 35 and Yashinon DS 1.9 50. Two not so big lenses. With the 35 mm i have good results when stitching images together. The 50ds is very sharp at f/8.

One Adapter ring. Is there a m42 thread Lena cap fitting in the Adapter ring? So orten i usw m42 it could stay in the EF Mount vor is it Vetter to removr the ring every time nounting a m42 lens?

If tele needed i include the yashinon DX 2.8 135 . however this lens is not leightweight.

Search now for a good 24/28 mm Lens but currently the ones i look for seem all to be overpriced.

philslizzy · Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 4748 Location: Cheshire, England

I use mainly rangefinder cameras so my lens kit is physically quite small. I normally carry:

Orion 15 28mm f6
Canon 35mm f2
50mm (whatever is on that particular camera)
Elmar 90mm f4
Staeble 135 f4

Sony A7 body for digital
Leica M3 or
Canon P for film.

lumens pixel · Expire: 2021-06-25

TurtleSkinny · Joined: 15 Jan 2020 Posts: 70 Location: Italy

I only go out with a few lenses for my Fuji APSC.

The lens kit to get a wider angle view :

The kit of lenses to get a more telephoto view

If I go out with only one lens I usually choose between Olympus Zuiko 24 mm f/2.8 and SMC Pentax-A 28 mm f/2.8.

Ps : Before I bought the Rolleinar 85/2.8 nobody talked about it, now on ebay the price has increased a lot. Maybe someone has rediscovered it.

Ernst Dinkla · Joined: 30 Nov 2016 Posts: 378

The vintage lenses I have are native/adapted/converted Canon EF mount or native/adapted/converted Sony FE mount. Adaptations and conversions often made with 3D printed parts that are light in weight but bayonets mainly alu Chinese EF and FE reverse ring types that do not weigh much either.

For my A7RII the lightest set I carry is the FE 28 2.0 and FE 85mm 1.8 and a salvaged 45mm compact camera lens added that got an FE mount. Either the Color-Yashinon 45mm 1.7 (46mm actual FL) or the Petri 45mm 1.8 (47mm actual FL). The best of the nine compact camera lenses that I converted. Later on I probably will go for a modern 50mm instead.

Three lens sets with Canon EF mount that I carry or have in my bicycle bags:
The Mamiya-Sekor CS 35mm 2.8 + Olympus OM 50mm 1.4 + a 75mm scanner lens fitted in a Panagor 135mm barrel as the Sigma DG Macro 70mm 2.8 is too big. Sigma MC-11 or Metabones IV smart adapter stays on the camera then, weighs about 125grams, small volume. Programmable EF AF confirmation chips added on the lenses for IBIS setting and EXIF data.
Typical set for the coast; Tokina RMC 17mm 3.5 + Mamiya-Sekor SX 55mm 1.8 + Minolta MD I 200mm 4.0. Usually more lenses in the cycle bags then. Minolta MD III 135mm 3.5, Tokina AT-X 90mm 2.5 macro, the M-S CS 35mm, EFs 55-250mm + Kenko 1.4x converter.

When I have two focal lengths in mind I add a third in between or beyond with a focal length based on the other focal lengths. √(axb)=c for one in between, b²:a=c for one longer or shorter than the two I have. Covered field changes with the same steps then.

M42 mount is for odd lens conversions, macro tinkering, converted bellows, separate helicoids etc. Used at home and in the garden. Not for the road.

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9097 Location: Houston, Texas

Back in my film shooting heyday, I carried Canon FD. But when it came to an EDC kit, I had managed to pare things down to a camera (sometimes with motor drive) and two lenses. I decided on two zooms for my kit: the Vivirtar Series 1 28-90mm and the Tamron SP 60-300mm. Both zooms provided me with critically sharp slides. Sometimes, for a slightly larger kit, I would include a Canon FL 19mm ultra-wide. And if I wanted more reach on the long end, back then I had a sharp Sigma 600mm mirror I'd use. But usually, when I shot with the Sigma, I'd also have to lug along a tripod or monopod.