> I'm with you Fred. [Zoom] Convenience often wins out... Perhaps, Vic, although for me it is not always just laziness:
I think that a good zoom is a useful substitute for prime lenses under some conditions. It's not always laziness that keeps me from "zooming with my feet" for framing: Sometimes the speed of zooming (as opposed to having to move my whole body around) to cope with fast framing changes can make the difference in getting a good shot at just the right instant. Or, switching, say, from an 85 to a 135 can take agonizingly long seconds at times. Also, a lot of the informal portraits I shoot sometimes have to be done in somewhat crowded rooms, where moving around too much can be counterproductive to getting ~candid~ shots. I find that people can often get used to (or, at least, resigned to) having someone taking a series of photos (even flash photos) once the first 2 or 3 are taken, just as long as the shooter isn't constantly blundering around like the proverbial bull in a china shop. Of course, sometimes it ~is~ just laziness... Fred
