paul stenquist wrote: >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.
It was the FA*80-200/2.8 that made me finally admit that zooms could be as good optically as primes. Now the DA*16-50 is my most used lens. Though, for the past week I've been deliberately shooting with nothing but primes - the 21, 31, 43 and 77. I'm going to continue the experiment for a while... -- 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.
