Jack Davis wrote:
Do you suppose we really don't NEED all the lenses we think we do? NAHHHH!
Depends on what you're shooting. I shoot mostly auto racing. Even when you have credentials to get onto the "hot side" of the fences, you still have some geometries and distances you can't affect. For example, there's one particular corner at Road Atlanta where I'll use all of the following focal lengths: 400, 300, 200, 100, 50. Each gets different aspects of things. The 400 lets me isolate a driver in a car in one part of the corner, and just the car's "cab" in a different part of the corner. The 300 works for most or all of one car depending on where it is in the corner. The 200 works for 1.5 to two cars in most of the corner, and three to four in another part of the corner. The 100 lets me get "packs" of cars (or parts of packs) as they navigate the corner in a clump. The 50 lets me show the cars and the crowd or a bit of the terrain. Each has its role. However, obviously, motorsports shooting is pretty specialized and much more constrained than a lot of genres of photography.
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