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Old 25-05-10, 14:14
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Originally Posted by Alex1994 View Post
OK, this forum has been a little slow in the past week, so I thought I'd spark some thought.

I personally believe primes to be superior to zooms:

Primes are:
- sharper glass for the money
- for the same price, faster glass

But a lot more money to cover the same focal range

- smaller and lighter

Not if you have to carry more glass overall

- tools that make you focus far more on composition, which is what really matters

Zooms are surely just huge, clumsy, threatening pieces of glass that deliver sub-par results, right?

You've obviously never used Oly HG/SHG zooms
Here's one I did earlier with with an EFL of 100-400, f2.8-3.1, weight <1kg and cost <£1K -Morgan - I think you would be pushed to cover that range at that weight or price with primes
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