Where was I when ya’ll were filming this, Maria!? 🥺 Anyhow, I might have to go with my bread and butter lens/the lens I cannot live without- Sony 135mm f/1.8 GM! 🔥 I don’t mind taking portraits of everything in creamy-delicious depth of field all alone stranded in a Desert Island. 🏝️
This was really fun seeing the different personalities from the store! All too often, we look at B&H as a camera warehouse (which is also true) and forget about the great people that work there. My choice - Sony 35 GM - while I don't use it that often, every time I do I am stunned by how good the quality of the images are. Not too wide, not too tight - the perfect goldilocks lens.
It's been said the best camera is the one you have in your hand at the moment. I suppose the same could be said for a lens. Much as I'd like to go with a Canon 24-105, I think I'd just want my Canon 100m f/2.8L macro. Love macro stuff !!!
If I was stranded on a desert island and could only choose 1 lens, it’d be like a 2,000mm so I could see boats on the horizon. And the front element of a 2,000mm lens would be large, I could use that with the sun to make a fire. Boom, a 2,000mm lens no doubt.
My Tamron 35-150 F2-F2.8 E mount - Pet Peeve using a wireless lav mic handheld! AT least put the $20 stick on it. Heck your partners with Rode use their Handheld Interview Mic
On a desert island a camera would pretty low on my priority list and I’d settle for the one on my iPhone. Anywhere else I wouldn’t limit my self to one lens. Starting out in 1970 getting paid and credit for shooing in college I used a pair of Nikon F bodies with 35mm f/2 and 85mm f/1.8, my ‘bridged SLR was Nikon 8008 with 24-70mmm and 70-200mm zooms. I switched to Canon digital in 2004 with a 20D I always carried EF-S 10-22mm, 24-70mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f/2.8, two 580ex flashes with DIY diffusers and a Stroboframe camera flip bracket. I still use the lenses and flashes on my 15MP 50D which more than adequate for posting on TH-cam and other social media and this year added two R6mkII bodies with 100-500mm and 800mm f/11 so can quickly swap between them and with EF-RF adapter used all my old glass including the EF-S 10-22mm which the R6mkII senses and switches automatically to crop mode. Hey B&H when is the RF10-20mm going to be in stock? I can’t wait to sent a couple more grand your way 💸 😂
IDK if I had to pick one lens to use for the rest of my life or be stuck on an island with, I' probably go more for a travel zoom personally. The 24-70 is versatile and fast if you get the 2.8 version but it is somewhat limited. So something like the Nikon Z 28-400 or 24-200, Canon 24-240 or the Sony 24-240 or a Tamron 28-300. While they aren't the fastest lenses, they are one lens that can handle a lot of tasks. I mean maybe this is because I mostly shoot landscape and travel so the longer FLs and variety is more important to me than sheer sharpness or speed perhaps.
If I was ship wrecked on a desert island, I'd want the longest lens I could find to spot passing ships. But, if I could only have one lens in every day life, it would be the 24-70 GM II, since I shoot Sony. Since I'm an outdoor photographer, I'd be interested in what cameras and lenses photographers use for street photography. Or what cameras and lenses outdoor photographers use that aren't Sony, Nikon, or Canon and why they use them.
The correct answer is the longest lens you can get with a SLR. It can be used as a spotting scope and, being and SLR, you can look through it without power. That's what she meant, right? 🤔
What is your desert-island lens, and why?
Where was I when ya’ll were filming this, Maria!? 🥺 Anyhow, I might have to go with my bread and butter lens/the lens I cannot live without- Sony 135mm f/1.8 GM! 🔥 I don’t mind taking portraits of everything in creamy-delicious depth of field all alone stranded in a Desert Island. 🏝️
Fujinon 18-120 because of focal range and weather resistance
apo 35mm summicron with cropping you can legit do anything.
There's plenty to can take with a Sony 135mm f/1.8 GM lens!
Without doubt Sony RX10IV, 24-600 equivalent. Sony please continue this line!!!!
Pop with the 24-120 f/4 Nikon knows his thing.... That lens is my lens of choice...
Definitely the Nikkor Z 24-120 f/4. Versatile and incredibly sharp.
My mind says RF24-70 2.8. My heart says RF50mm 1.2
That’s my workhorse. I have a sigma 24 to 70 2.8 and it’s absolutely my favorite lens and most used all around.
Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 for Sony E mount.
Exactly
Easy. That big green Sigma 1200mm, so I can look for ships to signal. I'll be off that island within a week 😆
Smart thinking.
Since I own this lens, it would be the 24-105 f/2.8 and I would use the DJI mic 2
Canon RF 100-500 F4.5-7.1 L IS USM to shoot everything on and off the island!
This was really fun seeing the different personalities from the store! All too often, we look at B&H as a camera warehouse (which is also true) and forget about the great people that work there.
My choice - Sony 35 GM - while I don't use it that often, every time I do I am stunned by how good the quality of the images are. Not too wide, not too tight - the perfect goldilocks lens.
We always want the opinions of our experts in the store. Always fun to include them.
My Sigma 150-600mm, great for wildlife… And hopefully I’ll be carrying the Canon 50mm 1.8 as well…
Always nice to see Maria. The one lens for me would be the Fujinon XF33 f/1.4 (50mm equivalent) on my X-T4.
Nikon 28-400mm
It's been said the best camera is the one you have in your hand at the moment. I suppose the same could be said for a lens. Much as I'd like to go with a Canon 24-105, I think I'd just want my Canon 100m f/2.8L macro. Love macro stuff !!!
Watching this from the UK just to see inside the famous BH Photo…. I’d love to visit but won’t fly. Btw, the staff look really cool 😎
It's like visiting virtually!
If I was stranded on a desert island and could only choose 1 lens, it’d be like a 2,000mm so I could see boats on the horizon. And the front element of a 2,000mm lens would be large, I could use that with the sun to make a fire. Boom, a 2,000mm lens no doubt.
A lens that can do more than just take pretty pictures.
What a good video! Very nice!
Glad you liked it!
My Tamron 35-150 F2-F2.8 E mount - Pet Peeve using a wireless lav mic handheld! AT least put the $20 stick on it. Heck your partners with Rode use their Handheld Interview Mic
On a desert island a camera would pretty low on my priority list and I’d settle for the one on my iPhone.
Anywhere else I wouldn’t limit my self to one lens. Starting out in 1970 getting paid and credit for shooing in college I used a pair of Nikon F bodies with 35mm f/2 and 85mm f/1.8, my ‘bridged SLR was Nikon 8008 with 24-70mmm and 70-200mm zooms.
I switched to Canon digital in 2004 with a 20D I always carried EF-S 10-22mm, 24-70mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f/2.8, two 580ex flashes with DIY diffusers and a Stroboframe camera flip bracket.
I still use the lenses and flashes on my 15MP 50D which more than adequate for posting on TH-cam and other social media and this year added two R6mkII bodies with 100-500mm and 800mm f/11 so can quickly swap between them and with EF-RF adapter used all my old glass including the EF-S 10-22mm which the R6mkII senses and switches automatically to crop mode.
Hey B&H when is the RF10-20mm going to be in stock? I can’t wait to sent a couple more grand your way 💸 😂
We have the Canon RF 10-20mm lens in stock!: bhpho.to/3POu3K2
IDK if I had to pick one lens to use for the rest of my life or be stuck on an island with, I' probably go more for a travel zoom personally. The 24-70 is versatile and fast if you get the 2.8 version but it is somewhat limited. So something like the Nikon Z 28-400 or 24-200, Canon 24-240 or the Sony 24-240 or a Tamron 28-300. While they aren't the fastest lenses, they are one lens that can handle a lot of tasks. I mean maybe this is because I mostly shoot landscape and travel so the longer FLs and variety is more important to me than sheer sharpness or speed perhaps.
Sigma 40mm Art 1.4
If I was ship wrecked on a desert island, I'd want the longest lens I could find to spot passing ships. But, if I could only have one lens in every day life, it would be the 24-70 GM II, since I shoot Sony. Since I'm an outdoor photographer, I'd be interested in what cameras and lenses photographers use for street photography. Or what cameras and lenses outdoor photographers use that aren't Sony, Nikon, or Canon and why they use them.
Nobody bringing a 70-200mm
Canon EF 35mm F:2 IS good both for tropics and arctic
Tamron 35-150 f/2-2.8 on my Z8.
Canon 1200mm so I can spot the ships to get me off this island. Then sell it for 20k to help get my life back on track.
Summilux 35 my favorite
Nikon 50mm 1.8s on a Z8
Tamron 28-200mm
Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 SC
Fuji 50-140 f2.8
35-150 f2-2.8 for Nikon. Easy decision.
Nikkor Z 28-75 2.8
Canon EF 40mm 2.8
Rf 24-105 F2.8
Landscape, astro, wildlife, and can use as a weight training 😂
An all in one lens 💪
Whichever one is best as a magnifying glass so I could start a fire!
But wouldn't that damage the lens? What would you take photos with??
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Did you mean deserted island not desert?
Desert island and deserted island both work for this, desert island is just more commonly used.
The correct answer is the longest lens you can get with a SLR. It can be used as a spotting scope and, being and SLR, you can look through it without power. That's what she meant, right? 🤔
Never thought of it that way.
Zeiss Makro planar 50mm f:2 ZE.
Leica Q2 28mm 1.7
Fujifilm XF35mm1.4
Nikon 24-120 Z or Nikon Z 24-200FX
A lens with a phone to call for help
too easy
What's a desert island lens?
A remote island, that is also a desert. What lens would you take if you we're stuck on a desert island?