gstark wrote:And ... I defy anyone here to put a zoom on their camera, and not adjust the focal length.
before i got my 20mm f2.8 (lens which i use/prefer as general walk-around prime),
i always used to shoot with my 18-70 kit lens fixed at 18mm,
although i understand for simplicities sake that this is a 50mm challenge (i in fact have a 50mm lens), where only primes can be used, i do not understand the difference between:
- someone picking up a 50mm lens, framing and shooting a photo,
and
- picking up a 17-50 and leaving it at 50mm, using their discipline, and not zooming at all, framing, and then shooting the photo.
unless i am missing something?
i do understand what you mean about the 'feel' behind shooting with a prime, it is very pure and i much prefer it to a zoom,
but say if i got a zoom and left it at 50mm all day (for arguments sake lets say i physically fix it with tape into that position), then there is no difference between that and a 50mm, imho.
bahhhhh, i guess what im asking is there something intrinsically differnet between shooting a photo at a given focallength with a zoom to that shot at the same focal length with a prime???