OK, with all the discussion about zooms here these past months, I got to thinking about how such a lens is used.
It seems that if you are standing at a certain spot and want to fill the frame with the subject, you'd use the zoom feature to do so. But, is the perspective the same as if you used a shorter focal length prime lens and moved closer to the subject, assuming that in both cases the subject fills the frame to the same degree. Zooms (from my limited experience) seem to have more distortion at the wider and longer ends of their focal range compared to primes of a similar focal length. Is that a generally fair statement? Shel
