I've just done a very interesting little experiment. I currently have a few medium-quality lenses in my camera bag. Nothing really special - the 18-70mm kit lens from my D70, 50mm f/1.8, 105mm macro and the 70-300mm VR. At some point... Like when i win the lottery... I would love to gather together the cream of Nikon's zooms so I got my photo editing/organising software to look through my image library and collect together all the images taken at the focal lengths of the 14-24mm, 24-70mm and 70-200mm. I will never be able to carry let alone afford any of these lenses so it's purely for my own amusement, but I was initially surprised that the 24-70 and 70-200 categories were pretty much neck and neck. Then I remembered that the results were being more than a little bit skewed by the 105mm macro I use for TtV work. With that taken out of the equation, the 24-70mm range is the clear winner, making up 43% of my shots. So in conclusion, the first lens I would buy when I won the lottery is the 24-70mm f/2.8. And the first camera I would buy would be the titanium Leica they've just announced... at the very reasonable sum of €22,000!
