Tagged with 17-55 - Personal View Talks

One Perfect Lens?

matt_gh2 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:21:55 +0000

I was hoping to get some feedback from anyone who's used the Nikon 17-55 lens (with the f 2.8 available all the way through the zoom) or is familiar with it or other zoom lenses. What do you guys think about this lens as a single lens to shoot a narrative feature film. Our cinematographer wants to use one lens with a zoom as we are occasionally in cramped/tight locations, and the perfect shot is often between the fixed focal length lenses we have (18mm, 28, 50). I'm curious to see if anyone has any experience/knowledge of this lens' image quality, particularly when on a GH2 (will be using one of the Apocalypse Now settings. probably Boom - (thank you Driftwood))

The f 2.8 is pretty good for low light, but for very very low light we'll have ample lights at all time.

So what do you guys think...could this be one perfect lens?

(Here's a link to the lens at B@H - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/300490-USA/Nikon_2147_17_55mm_f_2_8G_ED_IF_AF_S.html

SOLD: Nikon 17-55 mm F/2.8G IF AF-S DX

katig — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:52:56 +0000

Mint condition, with both caps, UV filter, bag and FF ring. No hood. Shipping included. 750€ paypal.

Nikon 17-55mm tripod ring solutions?

Micah — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:47:54 +0000

I've done some preliminary digging around and nobody seems to have broached this topic so far.

The 17-55 lens has been really enjoyable to shoot with so far, but I'd like to take the tension off the mount of my M43 bodies--it's a beast of a heavy lens!

I've got some ideas about how to assemble a rig to do so, but I'm curious if anybody else has tried this.