----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT - Wedding photography advice solicitation
>I wouldn't try to shoot an event like a party or wedding without a zoom. At >any size 11 x14 or smaller, there's no visible difference between a shot >taken with the FA35/2 and one taken with the DA 16-45/4. I used the latter >at the reception of the wedding I recently shot. It was perfect, and I >needed a variety of focal lengths. At the ceremony, I used the DA 16-45/4 >on one camera and the DA 50-200/4.5-5.6 on the other. I had to shoot >available light in this venue (a courtroom), and both lenses worked well. I >used the longer one on the K10D so that I'd have shake reduction. Although >I shot excluisively with primes for my first 25 years of photography, I now >consider zooms indispensible and quite good. A single focal length at a >reception could exclude shots like large tables and even big groups. For the first 20 years of my wedding career, I stuck with a standard lens and nothing else. If I felt the shot was important enough, I got it. I played with zooms a bit after that, and went back to primes very quickly. Scott, by his own admission isn't experienced in this sort of photography, why would you recommend he makes his job more difficult than it needs to be? Too often, your advice or anecdotes are based on experiences that don't have a solid footing in the reality that 99% of shooters have to deal with. We don't all get to play footsie with Clint Clemons. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
