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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-24-2011, 04:54 PM
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Hello all
Just thought I'd join in on the conversation, and lend my opinion.
For me I've sold all my zoom lenses except one and use only primes now. For me it was when I looked at the metadata on the photos I shoot generally around the same focal lenght +/- a few mm. I guess I just preferred the look of certain focal lenghts. But yes sometimes it is a pain to use my feet to walk the few meters to get to correct framing and not all the time possible, but I have found that it slowed me down so I do actually think about framing than just zooming away. That's just me, I don't do photography for commercial reasons but for the fun of it, so it works for me :)
The weight was the biggest issue for me. I had a sigma 20-40 f2.8 before I bought a DA 15mm Ltd, and trust me when you are walking around, that's a lot of difference in feel. Granted they two different lenses but I also had a Sigma 10-20 before and when hiking, the reduction is weight using a DA 15mm is kinder on the shoulder and legs.
Onto normal ranges, I had a sigma 28-70 f2.8. It was large too, however it did cover the ranges of the 3 primes I have, so it was convenient but the down side is that it is slower than the 31, 50 f1.2 and the 77. So it was a compromise, and for me a faster lens was higher in my priority, K&7's high ISO performance isn'tits strongest point. Generally now when I shooting I use one of my 3 lenes say 80% of the time and when I need a different look, I switch and complete the shots that I couldn't acheive with the lens that I had on.
However I have kept one zoom the Sigma 70-200 because, one there weren't a lot of primes in this range I was interested in or could afford soon, but it does offer me a chance to use the zoom for creative options that my primes can't.
Well thats my two cents, but everyone has their own preferences when it comes to shooting a different needs. I couldn't complain on the IQ from the zooms and if I didn't have to sell them for cash for the other lenses I bought I would have kept them.
Take care and happy shooting
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