Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I'll go one further than just what you have said...to me shooting with a zoom allows for laziness in composition as much as i does in lazy in changing lenses. When I shoot with primes I tend to think more and pay more attention, not just twist the ring to get closer or further away. Do I use zooms, yes a lot. But I prefer primes, the main reason now I use zooms is the more I change lenses the more dust I seem to get on my sensors. So I use either the 24-70 or 16-35 on my 5D and the 70-200 on the 1DII. Now with my M6 I usually have either the 28, 35 or 50 on it. Mark Rabiner wrote: > > Zooms create standard of the industry images. Nothing wrong with them. > You see a picture in the paper or magazine it was proably taken with a > zoom. > But lets not get carried away. A zoom is a convenience and a convenience we > can live without. Perhaps in many cases SHOULD live without but we're too > darned lazy. > The results we get with zooms are just dandy till you compare them with > what you get from a single focal length lens in real world shooting > situations. Not a paper on the wall. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://www.mcclary.net/blog