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From: Mafud
Subject: Re: More on croppng (Was: An important step)
> Bill,
> I was trying to quench a growing fire, this "zooms as inferior
photographic
> tools" thread abuilding in our midst.
I don't know where this started. I originally stated my
thoughts, which was that a zoom was a powerful tool for the
knowedgable (experienced) photographer.
There is no doubt about that. Too many PJ's and other pros make
too many fine images with zooms to make that point arguable.
My point was that the zoom in the hands of a beginner
photographer (as opposed to a casual snapshooter) is like
handing a stick of lit dynamite to a baby from the POV of the
final image.
Anything which allows us to be lazy when we are learning a craft
will get in the way of learning the craft.
The casual snapshooter is beyond redemption, photographically
speaking. They just don't care. And thats fine, they do with the
medium what suits them. The camera as a graven memory tool is
perfectly valid.
I still think that if you want to learn the craft of
photography, zoom lenses are anathema to the process. I also
think that the budding photographer should skip 35mm completely
and move straight to medium format.
That will, I am sure, open another can of worms.
>
> But the question[s] still stand:
> 1) can ~anyone~ tell (with any great degree of accuracy)** and
without
> looking at the captions, which of the March 2001 PUG entries
were made with
> primes Vs. zoom lenses?
> **(What would be a good score: 60%)?
>
> 2) Which of the print submissions were "cropped?"
C'mon Mafud, thats not even a good Straw Man arguement. A 600
pixel wide image is not a test of a lens. One image on the
gallery this month was done with a Kodak throwaway (motto: a
different aspheric lens fomulae in every box). It has the same
quality as any of the images in the gallery (with the exception
of Versal Cross' image, which is stunning).
Same with cropping.
But you knew that when you wrote it, I hope.
>
>
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