In an article about prime lenses, Miserere pointed to the first zoom lens for 35mm still cameras. Wow, what a beautiful monster!
It was by accident I found that article by Miserere, but I've blogged before about his articles on the Canon S90. I like his thinking on gear, and he's a very good shooter too.
It's funny, by the way, I keep thinking that I have to choose between zooms and primes, instead of just using both or either. At the very least I feel one or the other should be my primary tool, and the other one quite secondary. Not choosing feels... schizo. Weird, it's primitive thinking. I guess it's the ol' craving for certainty.
Related: an article about "which lens to buy".
There's always a balance. For the style of portraiture I do, I've found that primes, especially Canon's 85mm 1.8, yield the most attractive results. For all of my event and "on the street" work, I shelled out the cash for a Canon 28-300mm. It also takes attractive portraits, but is a little heavy and unwieldy for quickly moving between poses and setups.
ReplyDeletePrimes will generally be optically better and a stop or two faster than zooms. Use the right tool for the job at hand.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget zoom feet.
-jbh-
When I was shooting medical photography, my department had a whole army of Leicas. The machines were fantastic - and we only had one really special lense. The Angenieux zoom.
ReplyDeleteIt was the sharpest column of glass in our camera lockup - and we all used it to shoot everything from surgery to macro to landscapes. No distortion at all, and this 70-300mm lens was heavy - it contained REAL Baltic Sea glass, but it was worth using everytime.
It was a true zoom - you could focus on a certain plane and then zoom - and that plane would stay sharp without any deviation.
It was a 2.5 and the front element was 84mm.
Eolake,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you liked my article, and I'm surprised you found it. I'm fond of those articles I wrote for Yvon Bourque's Pentax blog, but it's almost impossible to run into them by accident as they're buried deep in his blog.
I see you liked the portrait of my friend Eva. She's very cute, with a beautiful, quick smile and expressive features. Getting a nice portrait of her is like shooting fish in a barrel :-D (And sorry guys, she's taken!)
As for your either/or conundrum, it's not schizo at all to not choose! Or rather, you do choose: you simply choose all lenses :-)
Sounds like the right choice for me, if you can have it.
ReplyDeleteEva is very cute.
Funny how some people just photograph well (my father did), and some just don't.
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miserere pentax lens
(because of your comment on Pentax here, and I think on tOP.)
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