Tele, Telezoom and Prime lens
Apr 13, 2017 20:16:21 #
rattlesnakeron wrote:
Zoom lenses have a tendency to create lazy photographers. As a photography instructor for 35 years I have seen it happen over and over.
BS. If this were true, pros would have only primes. But the most used pro lenses are a holy trinity of zooms. On full frame digital or 35mm film:
14-24 mm f/2.8 (about 8% to 10% of all images)
24-70mm f/2.8 (1/2 of all images)
70-200mm f/2.8 (about 12% to 15% of all images)
There are similar trilogies for APS-C and Micro Four Thirds.
In the amateur world, more images are made with a 28mm (FF) perspective on an iPhone than with any other lens. And I can't think of a more inappropriate focal length for most of my work...
Apr 13, 2017 22:35:32 #
Apr 14, 2017 00:45:32 #
rattlesnakeron wrote:
Zoom lenses have a tendency to create lazy photographers. As a photography instructor for 35 years I have seen it happen over and over.
What does that even mean?!
When I'm out in the field, or woods, or swamp, I usually have 2 cameras with me, both with zoom lenses covering from 24 to 560 mm, and I don't have to change lenses. How many prime lenses would I need to bring with me to cover that range?! My general purpose lens in both Canon and Nikon is a 28-300 zoom. Have you ever carried a 1.9 pound camera with a 3.7 pound lens attached for several hours while taking hundreds of photographs? Definitely not something a lazy person would do. A few weeks ago the wife and I were at the Philadelphia flower show. Mounted on her camera a EF 24-105L II lens, on mine the aforementioned EF 28-300L. We rode the train into Philadelphia on a day it snowed several inches. We shot hundreds of photos that day; photos of trains, photos from the train, photos of the city and mostly lots of photos from inside the convention center. Not once did I miss a shot I wanted because of not having the right lens and not once did I feel the coverage from my lens was inadequate. I wonder how many primes I'd have needed that day to get the photos I got and how many times I would have had to change lenses. In my humble opinion, folks who use quality zooms are smart and folks who lug an assortment of primes around on a walkabout shoot are, as bugs bunny would say, maroons.
Apr 14, 2017 09:10:07 #
HarryBinNC
Loc: Blue Ridge Mtns, No.Carolina, USA
rmorrison1116 wrote:
What does that even mean?!
<SNIP>In my humble opinion, folks who use quality zooms are smart and folks who lug an assortment of primes around on a walkabout shoot are, as bugs bunny would say, maroons.
<SNIP>In my humble opinion, folks who use quality zooms are smart and folks who lug an assortment of primes around on a walkabout shoot are, as bugs bunny would say, maroons.
Excellent! I wish I could have said that so eloquently!
Apr 14, 2017 09:16:38 #
HarryBinNC wrote:
Excellent! I wish I could have said that so eloqu... (show quote)
Thank you. I've always been a big fan of that silly wabbit. My favorite is when he says, aaaahhhh, what an ultra maroon.
Apr 14, 2017 10:36:09 #
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