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Sold all the Nikon stuff. Now I have no idea what lenses I want for the Sony A7R.
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One day, alas worth double all the Nikon kit combined.
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This is my choice for you
to go with the the 200 - 600 and the 55mm 1.7 ?
To be honest I generally just buy cheaper lenses. Iāve bought the Tamron 24mm f2.8 (though itās in Florida so me be a while before I see it)
Zeiss 55mm is pretty tempting. I wish there were a few smaller pancake type lenses about.
Yes I also wish for a nice pancake lens. I used to have canon 40mm one that was fantastic.
I am looking for a 24mm and may end up with the Sony - but it is very expensive.
The 20mm @coco has looks amazing. All the GM lenses seem to be outstanding. Just a bit more than I can afford.
There is however loads of choice, and some excellent 3rd party lenses.
Iām happy messing about with the old Minolta lenses I have for now at least.
I have picked up the battery grip though 
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Pentax 43mm f1. 9 Limited with adapter, all the pancake you would need.
I want autofocus. Also the adapter adds a decent amount of depth.
Up front admission, I know next to nowt about cameras, so treat this question with the contempt it most likely deserves. What is the advantage of a pancake (shallower / flatter ?) lense ?
What negative effect does an extra cm or so (?) depth have ?
Slaughter away.
Thatās all it is. A lot of the modern prime lenses are big.
The A7R is a dinky camera for a full frame. It would be nice to have a compact lens for it so itās a bit more (big) pocketable.
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Iād definitely go with the Sony 20mm, itās fantastic and not crazy money.
For wide angle/standard/portrait lenses, I wouldnāt give a fuck about autofocus. In fact I would probably prefer manual in a lot of situations.
Once you get to super tele lenses and want to capture moving subjects (birds for me, obvs) then it is a must.
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The Sony Zeiss 35 f2.8 is pretty compact, if not quite pancake. Didnāt you used to have one Andy?
I have the manual stuff covered with my various film lenses (28/50/100 Minolta). It would just be nice to have a dinky lens to turn it into a point and shoot.
Compact isnāt a huge need, it would just be nice. A lot of the lenses just seem enormous. Like bigger than my medium format stuff massive.
Ah yea good shout.
This was the last evening I was able to go out. I wanted to see how the Fujifilm GFX 50S & 45mm lens coped at night, but that got buggered as it started raining as soon as I arrived in the town. This was the only shot I got, hand held with no IBIS so had to raise the ISO to get a shutter speed that wouldnāt blur.
Night walk. by Rick Francis, on Flickr
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When I had my old Nikon manual, the standard lens (50mm f1.8) was tiny. Why are these modern lenses not the same? I realise that autofocus will add bulk, but surely thatās girth rather than length. Why isnāt there a lens thatās about 3cm long?
