p.3 #2 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
AaronNegro wrote:
What necessity? What does a prime to your shooting that a zoom can't do? Distortion? Vignetting? Aperture? all of them?
I'm just not happy with my lens and buying a mixed bag of canon L zooms plus a few primes(I love primes) soon. I'm very keen to know what moved you to shoot only primes.
I need large apertures and unfortunately I can't find any canon zooms on the market that are faster than f/2.8
Also I have no choice but to use the 14LII since there is no zoom equivalent
p.3 #7 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
stanj wrote:
Lots of primes, some 2.8 zooms. You didn't offer that choice
+1
Polls frequently leave out the choice that fits my scenario.
I have 16mm-200mm covered with f/2.8 zooms, but if I can afford to work slowly,
I will generally prefer my primes or my adapted Zeiss 35-70/3.4 Vario-Sonnar zoom.
The zooms do the trick when there is no time to swap lenses, such as in wedding
and event work. But when there's time a prime almost always gives a better result.
Often time is a big constraint, and indoors the best solution is often f/2.8 zooms
with flash.
p.3 #8 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
M Vers wrote:
None of the options fit me personally. I am a mixed bag shooter going back and forth between fast primes and fast zooms with the occasional slower zoom mixed in. In very low light I'll almost always grab a prime or two, unless the lighting is so poor I need to use flash, where a zoom is more handy. Lens selection, for me, really depends on the subject matter and how I want to shoot it.
+1 That describes my usage too.
p.3 #9 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
My lenses are a mixture form which I pick the best tool to do the job. I cant really pick an option. For nature work I'd mostly pick a fast prime but unfortunately Canon only do f4 at 500 and 600mm (I also like to pick my lenses up).
p.3 #11 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
I don't fit any of the categories. I have 4 zooms 2.8, 4.0 , 2 that are variable and 2 primes that I use most of the time. I seldom use any wide open preferring to stop down to the lens's ideal. ( macro the exception)
p.3 #14 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
I currently only shoot primes, but I shot zooms for years. I'll probably go back to a combination of primes and zooms someday. But, for now, I prefer primes.
p.3 #16 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
I voted for the middle response. When I know there's a chance I might want a large print (happens fairly often) I usually go for a prime. The notable exception would be my 70-200 f4/IS. That lens is as sharp as any prime I have.
p.3 #17 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
f/4 zooms (17-40L and 70-200 f/4L IS are my only zooms, but see quite a bit of use), with primes for the rest (15 fish, 50 f/1.4 (sigma), Rok 85 f/1.4, 100L IS Macro)
p.3 #19 · Are you a prime, zoom or a mixed bag guy?
24-70 2.8
70-200 2.8 IS
and the cheap primes 50 and 85. I don't use the 50 anymore but i absolutely LOVE the 85 (even 1.8), gives me results I can't obtain even with 70-200 at longer focal range. I'm targetting L primes next, 35L next in list.
