Originally posted by SpecialK I like to say BS :-) You should see before you even raise the camera to your eye.
And you should brush your teeth every time you eat something. Do you?
What one
should or
shouldn't do is a moral issue. What one actually
does is more pragmatic. Seeing a picture before shooting is nice. Sometimes the picture can't be 'seen' until a frame is in PP being cropped and diddled. That's just reality. Or sometimes the pre-'seen' picture
must be cropped and diddled, to emerge from a raw frame. And some pictures are total accidents. Tsk tsk.
My point: AF zooms let one get away with composing a picture while standing in one spot, shooting quickly, etc. Manual primes
force the shooter to move around, look at subjects from different viewpoints -- to
see. That's my experience from over a half-century of shooting. (Your gear list is notably short on manual primes. Do you dislike them?)
You just stand there, looking cute
And if something moves, you shoot!
--Tom Lehrer