Ken Durling wrote:
>
> Knowing this won't endear me to many, I have to confess I find the
> endless zoom vs prime arguement tiresome. Does an artist always use
> the same brush? Poet always use the same rhyme scheme? Composer
> always write for the same instrument? (OK, *besides* Chopin) Isn't
> a lens a little like a brush? Even if we DID always everytime want
> the sharpest most distortion free image possible, the salesman at the
> store where I go just told me that a company that measures medical
> instruments just ordered 200 Tamron 20-40s. Go figure, I don't know
> how they use them, but here's a zoom being used in science. Intruder!
>
> But to me, photography, like music, is a combination of art and
> science. I don't listen to John Lee Hooker or J.S. Bach or Johnny
> Griffin the same way, don't have the same expectations.
> <snipped>
>
Ken, I fully agree with you, which is why I quit participating in the
zoom vs. fixed focal length argument. I have a mix of both, and use
them when the situation is appropriate. Or, as I've said before,
"Horses for courses."
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