How many cameras are you going to have? If you have enough to not get caught with the wrong lenses ready, the 14/2.8, 35/1.4, 85/1.2, 200/2, 400/2.8, and 600/4 should work very, very well. However, you're looking at perhaps $22k in glass, and that'd be after $24-32k in cameras. To begin, you probably want zooms until you have enough bodies to live on primes.


I have a 1D3 and a Rebel XTi. If my girlfriend isn't shooting, I also have a 40D available to me. Two bodies isn't enough for me (and the XTi is so incomparable to the 1D3 that I have to choose my lenses very carefully for each shoot; even the 40D requires careful pre-planning). On sailing trips, we use 1D3/16-35 (usually aperture-priority to f/11 for waterscape shots), XTI/24-105 (Program, for candids on the boat), and 40D/70-200 (Av to f/2.8 for singular-theme shots). This covers us, leaving the 50/1.8 and EF-S 18-55 in the bag as spares. When we go on shore for dinner, I'll often switch to 1D3/16-35 and 40D/24-105 so at least the stuff hanging off my shoulders is black. I'm tempted to rent the 400/4 for our next trip, but I'll have to see how the economy is doing. Perhaps this gives you a better idea of lens choices, etc.