On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:09 AM, David Mann <d...@multisport.net.nz> wrote:
> Lovely. I went running tonight when the temperature was about 2 degrees C so > I'm welcoming a nice summery pic. > > I used to have an M200mm f/4. Come to think of it I may still have it, kept > as part of a "travelling light" kit which I never seem to use. Well, fortunately I only have to travel to the bottom of my street to see this kind of stuff - quite a change for me from my last abode! I like the M200 not so much because it's light, but because I'm finding out that in many situations a prime is so much faster than a zoom - not faster in largest aperture but faster to use. I hate pointing at something that needs to be taken ~right now~ only to find that it's the wrong focal length. With a prime, I know what I have - if it won't work, I don't bother to point. I find I actually lose fewer photos that way. That being said, sometimes the flexibility of a zoom is appreciated, especially for those shots that one has a chance to "set up" for. Thanks for the kind words, and thanks to Dan as well. Thanks to everyone who looked. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
