Lens Charts - the first edition (top selling lenses at Amazon)
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As we promised at the start of the year, and as voted in the Reader's Choice poll, we will be increasing lens coverage. Following in the spirit of the top selling cameras soap opera, we are now launching a lens soap-opera. These are the best selling lenses at Amazon. It is a series of snapshots using weighted-average data.
The three categories below are self-explanatory, the first one has the ten top selling lenses, the second one picks the top selling lenses that cost $1000 or more. And to give some love to the other manufacturers, the third segment features the top sellers by mounts other than Canon and Nikon, since those two are dominating the market.
*** update for first-time visitors ***
*** this is a snapshot of the best sellers at Amazon as of the time of writing ***
*** this is not a long-term data list ***
Top Selling Lenses
[1] Canon EF 50mm f1.8, $86
[2] Nikon 50mm f1.8D, $115
[3] Canon EF-S 55-250mm f4-5.6 IS, $263
[4] Nikon 18-200 f3.5-5.6 DX VR, $661
[5] Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6, $219
[6] Canon 70-300mm f4-5.6 IS USM, $550
[7] Canon 50m f1.4 USM, $325
[8] Nikon 70-300 f4.5-5.6 VR, $480
[9] Canon 75-300mm f4-5.6 III USM, $191
[10] Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM, $1670
[1] Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM, $1670
[2] Canon 24-70mm f2.8L USM, $1140
[3] Canon 24-105mm f4L IS USM, $1040
[4] Nikon 24-70mm f2.8G ED AF-S, $1566
[5] Canon EF-S 17-55 IS USM, $1000
[6] Canon 16-35mm f2.8L II USM, $1450
[7] Canon 70-200mm f4L IS USM, $1050
[8] Canon 100-400 f4.5-5.6L IS USM, $1420
[9] Nikon 17-35mm f2.8D AF-S, $1500
[10] Nikon 80-400mm f4.5-5.6D ED VR, $1430
[1] Pentax 18-250mm f3.5-6.3, $417
[2] Pentax 55-300mm f4-5.8, $322
[3] Olympus 25mm f2.8 pancake, $237
[4] Olympus 12-60 f2.8-4 SWD ED, $760
[5] Olympus 35mm f3.5 Macro, $190
[6] Sony Alpha 28mm f2.8, $250
[7] Tamron 70-300 f4-5.6 for Sony-Minolta-Alpha, $160
[8] Pentax 18-55mm f3.5-5.6, $110
[9] Pentax 40mm f2.8 pancake, $262
[10] Tamron 70-300 f4-5.6 for Pentax, $130
Lens fans, we already had the digital-lens round-up in the "orange" blog (old blog), which will be retrofitting here in the next few weeks.
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