I never owned a zoom until a few years ago. For my first 30 years of
photography, I got by with primes. Now I rarely use a prime. The new
Pentax zooms are just too good and too fast to be ignored. With the
12-24, 16-50, 50-135, and 60-250, I'm prepared for almost anything. I
still use the FA 50/`1.4 from time to time in extremely low light, the
Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 for macro, and the A 400/5.6 for reach, but
the zooms are my most used lenses by far.
Paul
On Oct 17, 2009, at 5:53 PM, John Francis wrote:
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.
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