For me, I find that zooms tend to help me to take good snapshots. Primes tend to make me think more about what I am trying to do. Along the same lines as an earlier discussion about how Medium Format forces one to think a bit more about the shot due to 10 frames per roll. Primes tend to make me think more about the focal length I really want to work with because changing lenses is much slower than zooming. Another way to put it is that with a prime, I tend to try to "create" the picture and with a zoom I tend to "record" what I am seeing.
Each has their place and I use zooms when I am taking snapshots. When I am try to create a serious picture, I use a prime. Bruce Dayton Sunday, May 12, 2002, 11:16:49 PM, you wrote: BR> Brian, BR> The bottom line is "what works best for the individual" and the BR> photography they do. BR> For me, I had used primes only from 1968 until 89 (with the exception of BR> a Vivitar zoom I bought in 71 and returned the following day). In 1989, I BR> bought my first AF camera and zooms - feeling that the optical quality had BR> improved. That lasted until 1999 when, by chance, I drug our my old BR> Spotmatic and a few lenses for a comparison shoot to see how far optics had BR> advanced in 30 years. The AF gear was sold to fund a LX and I have been BR> happier ever since. What the primes did was to remind me of how to see BR> again. BR> Again, this is personal and many may have only learned photography with BR> the latest AF cameras and Lenses. The trend can always be noted every time BR> one pops into a camera store. BR> Bob BR> ----- Original Message ----- BR> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BR> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BR> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:07 PM BR> Subject: Re: Do zooms teach visual discipline? Was: Advice Needed For BR> Student >> In <003001c1fa36$8a17ad30$1502a8c0@rappr>, on 05/13/02 >> at 02:26 PM, Bob Rapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> |>Your legs are "painted on" and don't want to walk closer. >> >> I really have an hard time understanding how this canard got started >> much less gets repeated. Walking is not the same as zooming. >> Perspective changes, subjects escape, proximity offends, bridges and >> sheer drops do not permit getting closer even if they were equivalent. >> >> >> >> |>As a stop-gap until you can afford primes. >> >> sure lets shoot that scene off the end of the dock with an 85mm prime >> then switch to a 150 for a detail and then switch to that 300 for >> another more distant detail. Primes have advantages but stacking them >> up as a replacement for a zoom is not among them just as zooms have >> their very real place in the tool kit but an f3.5 zoom at 50mm is no >> replacement for an f1.4 50mm. >> >> differing philosophies but more agree with you than with me. >> >> >> Bran >> >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> Any Discordian is expressedly forbidden to believe what she reads. >> -Discordian Catma >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . BR> - BR> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, BR> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to BR> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
