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Sony alpha 100
Sony alpha 580

Minolta AF 50mm 1.4
Tamron SP AF 90mm F/2.8 Macro
Minolta AF 20mm 2.8
Sony 16-80mm F/3.5-4.5 Carl Zeiss
Sigma 10-20mm 4-5.6 EX DC Digital
Lensbaby Composer (~50mm F2.0)
Tamron SP AF 70-200mm F/2.8 Di LD (IF) Macro

Sony HVL-F56AM flash

I've put the lenses in order of purchase. The first three are more than a decade old. I've used these three as my only lenses for several years on a Minolta 7xi camera (full frame film!) The 50mm and 90mm have wonderful bokeh. The 20mm was there for super stunning wide angle (on FF). The gap between 20mm and 50mm was filled later on with a 28mm 1.8 Sigma lens which I traded since it was incompatible with the Sony camera. It was terribly soft anyways on the Minolta.
The 50 and 90 I still use a lot, the 20 I keep for when I ever return to FF. It's a great lens, but I hardly ever take the effort of putting it on since I have the 16-80 as well. I bought this 16-80 lens to replace the 17-70 kit lens on my a100. It's really sharp but has some vignetting at wide angle & large aperture. Corners are really black already when a 'slim' filter is attached to it. Either the 16 or the 3.5 is invalid in its name. Still, a really good lens, but just not up to the specs that its name suggests.
With the 20mm not being so ultra-wide anymore on APS sized sensors, I bought the 10-20. Hesitated a long time because of my poor 28mm 1.8 sigma experience, but it tested better than the Tamron and Sony (APS) wide angle zooms. The Sigma 10-20 is a fine lens, but I don't use it that often. You always long for wider angles of view to capture really big and impressive things, but once you've managed to pull everything into the photograph, it just doesn't look all that overwhelming anymore.
The Lensbaby is cute. I should use it more often as well.
The Tamron 70-200 is my latest lens. I haven't had any lenses beyond the 90mm from when I traded my Minolta kit lens in the mid 90s. That was something like a 4.5/6.3 70-210 type of lens that did not have impressive image quality and required high iso film or sunny summer weather to be able to use it without tripod. Never longed for tele range specifically. Now that I have it, I wouldn't want to miss it. With the in-camera image stabilization of the Sony and the 2.8 aperture (at which performance is already good), this lens is very usable. Nice bokeh and excellent sharpness.

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What else is there to say? I think there used to be categories like favorite authors and music and films in the profile section but they have disappeared.

I've found out that some of my most admired authors all have a C-name: Couperus (especially his tales that take place in the Greek and Roman periods), Coupland (who balances between post modern high art and pulp -- if there is a difference between those anyway) and Calvino (The Invisible Cities for instance being a laegue of their own). Oek de Jong has nice and dreamy novels as well even though he doesn't have a C-name.
Beyond that I enjoy books on philosophy, art, language and society. Mostly the analytical side of it. Baudrillard is wonderful. Eco, Nietschze, Derrida, De Botton for the popular perspective.

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For favorite music, check out my lastFM page.
... and even if it doesn't say from my statistics: Sonic Youth is my favorite band.

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