Prime or Zoom?

[firecracker]

Even if so: so what?
Am i Cartier Bresson? Are you?

I'm a big fan of his work, and I find a 50mm lens on either RF or SLR to be very useful.

What I like about the 50mm is the way the vertical angle can crop the scene so well. It is a good portrait lens, not too wide or not too long.

[Q.G.]

I also found the 50 mm lens very useful.
I found other lenses very useful too.


But i still wonder, would you who like to take a leaf out of Cartier Bresson's book rather have a fixed focal length 50 mm lens, or a 50 - 50 mm zoom lens?

[eddym]

But i still wonder, would you who like to take a leaf out of Cartier Bresson's book rather have a fixed focal length 50 mm lens, or a 50 - 50 mm zoom lens?

Huh? Is this a trick question?

[Q.G.]

Huh? Is this a trick question?

"Prime or Zoom?"

[eddym]

"Prime or Zoom?"

It's the "50-50 zoom lens" part that I don't quite follow.

[Rol_Lei Nut]

It's the "50-50 zoom lens" part that I don't quite follow.

Personally, I prefer a "20-20" zoom lens, much sharper!
;-)

[Pumal]

Even if so: so what?
Am i Cartier Bresson? Are you?

I'm old. I don't like to carry a lot of weight. A 50mm lens can go a long way.

[Q.G.]

Personally, I prefer a "20-20" zoom lens, much sharper!
;-)

I prefer the 20 mm fixed. Don't like extreme wide zooms anyway, make you dizzy when you zoom from 20 mm to 20 mm.

But give me a 100 mm - 100 mm zoom. Much better than a 100 mm.
And i'm sure there was a photographer at some time somewhere who only used a 100 mm lens (though i'm not quite sure whether it was a "Prime or Zoom").

[Sirius Glass]

Some prefer the 100mm over the 80mm for the normal lens of the Hasselblad.

With 35mm I like 50-50 because half the time I am right and the rest of the time I am correct. It keeps things balanced.

Steve