Joe said: >I agree with this. I am annoyed, though, by those who write or say that you >are not a serious or conscientous photographer if you use zooms. (I don't >claim that this was said on PDML, but we were pointed recently to an >article that did say something like that.) > >I once waited 6-1/2 hours for the right light to photograph a scene. Then I >photographed it with the FA 20-35 f4 and got a fine image. Am I less than a >serious photographer?
I'm going to guess that this sort of advice appeared with early zooms, when the quality really was pretty bad. But they've been improving for half a century or so, and are a lot better now than they used to be. But there seems to be a lot of very old photographers that hang on to old advice for a long time.