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What is your holy trinity pf primes?

Started Mar 24, 2015 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
Guy Parsons Forum Pro • Posts: 40,000
Zoom user who sometimes goes primitive....

I grew up and abandoned primes and now use zooms, but scratching around in the rubble I found that I use Samyang 7.5 fish (always carried), Oly 9mm fish, Oly 60mm macro and there's an unused Sigma 19mm somewhere totally lost here. Also somewhere here Oly 4/3 35mm and 50mm macros.

So my lonely "holy primes" now used are the Samyang 7.5mm and the Oly 60mm, the rest is done with various zooms from 9mm up to 300mm, with the Oly 12-40mm getting most of the work (it being my bag of primes).

Looking at the situation I think that the ease of use of a zoom combined with the much better high ISO and good 5 axis stabilisation made my desire to use primes disappear. And don't harp on about shallow depth of field as I don't use that, most times I want good depth of field.

Regards.... Guy

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