Congratulations on this new Digest, and if there are more of the kind I would love to hear about them.(posted 8846 days ago)About Street photography, I usually don't ask, since I like the candid look of it, but if problem arise (not frequent enough) I just explain that it is for my personal collection or whatever. About the camera, I have an F4 but its to pro looking for the streets and people stare at it, so I take my old FE and sometimes even take along the motordrive. This way people just think you are some kind of really really poor amateur or just a student, since "no serious photographer would use such an old flimsy camera", to keep the mood try not to go out with super pro lens like a 85 1.4 or anything that looks as big, keep it without zooms, a 50 or 24 isn't too attention grabber, my favorite is a 100mm 2.8 series E its just a little longer than my 50mm, very lightweight (not like the 105 brother), good optics and great perspective for street. A 50mm is another favorite of mine, Once took my 180 but was too limiting (I belive that fixed focal lenses give you better pics not because it gives better quality but bc you have to move much more and find the correct pictures). Ho another thing: if you go with an old body don't put on it an new AFS lens since a new black and shiny lens looks very strange on an old silvery body (remember once went with the 28 2.8AF, more than once been asked about it by people), well thats all I can think about now. Till later.
What lenses do you guys and gals like?
Diego K