Zooms vs. primes: the final word and ultimate wisdom

[Joseph Tainter]

It's very simple. Everything in photography is a trade-off. Everything: 
film format (size), film type, camera bodies, lenses, whether or not to 
carry a tripod, what one spends, etc. Provided that we have some 
experience with gear or film, we each make our own decisions about which 
trade-offs we accept and which we don't. Zooms vs. primes are just 
another trade-off. There's no right or wrong answer. The debate is a 
non-issue.

Joe