If you had to pick just three lens

I am takiing a poll, if you could only buy three lens , what would they be

I've got a 350D which has a APS-C or 22mm sensor so the 1.6 crop factor applies.

Sigma 10-20 DC :

This is APS-C sized so true 10mm, fantasticly wide at a sensible price.

Cannon 18-55 EF-S :

This is the kit lens but I find it gives me a good range underwater (suplimented with a + diopter for close up work). Also as it's a APS-C lens the 18mm is actually 18mm, can't think of anthing to replace it. The place of a macro lens is taken by the + diopter as it's not needed for dome I've got.

Sigma 150-500mm :

With the small sensor this equates to 240-800. Whilst this is very defiantely not an UW lens I love it. With wildlife it means you can actually get full face shots. For once the crop factor is on my side.

Cheers,

Richard B.

I am a Nikon user and could live with two:

10.5mm fisheye and 105mm macro.

Alex

My list:

Nikon 60mm Macro

Nikon 10.5mm Fisheye

Nikon 12-24mm Zoom

Cheers

Torben

Canon shooter (Rebel XT cropped sensor) here,

Sigma 15mm and either Sigma 50mm or Canon 60mm macro.....Throw in the cheapie Canon 18-55mm EF-S lens in a pinch since it works behind the same dome port as the Sigma 15mm. And at the right mid-range apertures, surprisingly sharp!

That's it for UW shooting for me......

Dave Haas

I shoot with a 5D (although this list was still the same one my D60/20D becaues I avoided APS-C lenses anticipating a move to full-frame in the future).

Sigma 15mm/f2.8

Canon 17-40mm/f2.8L (with a diopter)

Canon 100mm/f2.8 (with a 500D dopiter for really little stuff).

On the surface I use the 17-40 quite a bit, along with the 70-200/f2.8L (which works with the 2x teleconvertor very nicely).

Hi

Nik shooter myself

105mm

12-24mm

10.5mm fisheye

regards

craig

Nikon here

10.5mm

105mm

17-35zoom

Talking only for uw...

For full-frame Canon:

Canon 17-40L

For cropped sensor (350D, 20D/30D) Canon:

Canon 10-22

And in either case, the other two lenses would be:

Sigma 50mm macro

Canon 100mm macro

My list:

 

Nikon 60mm Macro

Nikon 10.5mm Fisheye

Nikon 12-24mm Zoom

 

Cheers

Torben

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This would also be my choice.

Joe

Nikon here

  10.5mm

  105mm

  17-35zoom

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I'd go with the same line-up. Probably get the newer version 105.

A slightly modified version of the above:

10.5mm for wide angle;

17-55mm for medium to large fish and other charismatic animals;

105mm for small fish and macro.

Luiz

id agree with alex for nikon. The more i use the 10.5 the more i love it. but a 12 to 24zoom is great for large critter shots like sharks, manta, seals etc

I can easily live with 2 lenses on Nikon. A 10.5 and a 60mm + 2 x TC. (used to be 105).

Cor

10.5mm Nikkor

14mm Nikkor

60mm Nikkor (cold and murky water oblige)

But I sure am getting used to that 10-20 Sigma, fragile as hell (I'm up to my second one, Newton's law + 2 feet velocity factor) but pretty sharp over all. can'tr wait for Nikon to come up with something in this range.

Oh BTW, for dry shooting 14mm Nikkor. 105 Micro Nikkor (new one) and my crusty, trusty 500mm f:4.5.

12-24

105 AF-S

10.5

But I'd sneak my 60 into my bag and I'd leave my 17-55 on the camera until I put it into the housing.

Hi everyone

Canon 20d shooter here...

Canon EF-S 10-22 USM Zoom

Canon EF-S 17-85 USM IS Zoom

Canon EF 75-300 USM IS Zoom (obviously not for u/w)

Doug

My D200 is still on backorder, but I have settled on:

60mm

12-24mm

for my starter kit. later I plan on adding the 105 VR and 10.5

John

I agree with Luiz for this one

slightly modified version of the above:

10.5mm for wide angle;

17-55mm for medium to large fish and other charismatic animals;

105mm for small fish and macro.

Luiz

17-55 a great shark lens.. 10.5 and 12-24 too wide for that sort of stuff...