Inspiring next lens (for trip to Vietnam)

you need to see what a lens is capable of, how -it- sees, before you can visualize what you want.

Or perhaps tedolf wakes up and sees an image before he open your eyes and says 'I need to go out and buy this lens to capture that image'?  But then, you just admitted you have to force yourself to visualize at other than your normal focal length...  it doesn't just come to you.

That's the whole point of my premise-   that adding a different focal length to your lenses helps you to see differently.  One will not have much 'vision' on the patterns in a butterfly wing, if one's eyes aren't perfect, without first picking up a magnifying glass to see beyond the blotch of color.  Someone who tends toward tunnel vision may have to spend some time looking through an UWA before they can visualize the 'big picture'.  Someone used to taking in a whole vista at once won't pick out a tree stump on a ridge, or a face in a crowd, until you hand them a tele lens and force them to use it.

I understand your point of selecting the lens to match your vision, but sometimes its the vision that needs expanding.

But now I think it's time to go out and take pictures.  It feels like a 45mm day.

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Art P
"I am a creature of contrast,
of light and shadow.
I live where the two play together,
I thrive on the conflict"