Personally, I almost always use prime lenses. For events, I tend to pick one focal length and stay with that for the whole event. Indoor parties have never been a problem with either a normal or a medium- wide lens (35mm or 21mm on the *ist DS works great.
I find the changes in coverage and resulting different perspectives when using a zoom distracting in a set of event pictures. Big ceremonies like a graduation, I'd prefer a wide normal prime on one body and something like a 50-200 on a second body, however, because of the huge range of differences in distance from the subject. G On Jan 31, 2007, at 6:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
