On Thu, Aug 08, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Aug 8, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> One day of my Alaska cruise, I spent two hours walking around Victoria >> with the FA 100mm/2.8 WR macro. I enjoyed it, but it required a very >> different frame of mind -- accepting the shots I could take with it >> rather than seeing something and trying to make it work with good >> framing. Overall I definitely prefer zooms. (And it really only worked >> for me because I went out primarily with the intention of hunting >> flowers. I absolutely would have been frustrated with going a whole trip >> prime.) > > A 100mm lens on APS-C is rather an extreme one lens exercise. You have > to work in a very confined space with that. 21-50 mm is much more > flexible.
As I said, my intent in going out was to hunt flowers, and that was the only macro lens I brought on the trip. In general, I tend to prefer short-to-medium telephoto; if you subtract the Skagway train photos, the vast majority of my cruise photos were either the 100mm or the 60-250. (With P&S cameras, I tend to work the shorter lengths more often because that's the only way to get wider apertures for both low-light and bokeh.) The only time I wished for a shorter lens was when I was taking a couple of street shots. I wished for a longer lens on that walk much more frequently. I did have the 16-50 in my case, but it was drizzling at the start, and partway through the walk I decided to just make it a one-lens exercise. (Sure was glad to have WR lens!) -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
