On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:58:59PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > I followed your link to and was amused by: > < > http://shutterfinger.typepad.com/shutterfinger/2009/10/what-type-of-photographer-are-you.html > > > > aka: http://tinyurl.com/y9uvlh3 > > I think that I'm about 10% Purist, 70% Prime Fetishist and 20% > Lugger. Though I am willing to concede that there are some zooms as > sharp and fast as the primes available in the lengths that they > cover, such as the 16-50.
I'm "none of the above". My everyday carry kit is the K10D with the 16-50 mounted, and the 50-135 in the bag. Depending on where and what I'll be shooting I may supplement it with one or more of the AF-540, the DA 10-17, and the old A50/1.4. I've got a lot of other glass to pick from, but that stays at home unless there's a reason to throw it in the trunk. I've always used zooms, mostly because for a lot of what I did changing composition by moving shooting position just wasn't an option. But Pentax have some great zooms; my workhorse lens for motorsports was the 80-200, and for long range there's the 250-600. Occasionally I do carry just camera and one lens, but it's rarely a prime. Nowadays it's usually the 18-55 kit lens (on the *istD), but in the recent past it's been the 28-105 on the AF bodies, while thirty years ago it was the old M80-200 on the MX. So while today that puts me close to the "Kit Zoomer", I do at least check what shutter speed and/or aperture is selected, even if I do shoot a lot of the time in (hyper-)program. And I'm not surprised to find that this often results in acceptably sharp and well-exposed photographs - experience leads me to trust the equipment I use. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
