Most over rated feature

[alexmacphee]

Primes will always murder zooms, and slower lenses, with few exceptions.

It takes a muscular couple of primes to murder, or even commit a mild assault on, the Contax Vario-Sonnar 35-70 zoom.

 

[Q.G.]

A zoom is a prime too.

If you put something on that zoom (or other prime), something like a close-up lens, or anamorphotic lens, that something would be the thing that is not a prime (and as a secondary makes the taking lens - whether zoom or not - the primary lens).

So my vote today for the most overrated feature is the word "prime".

 

[alexmacphee]

So my vote today for the most overrated feature is the word "prime".

As everything can be deemed essential to somebody, my 'most overrated' vote goes to the word 'overrated'.

 

[benjiboy]

By reading through this thread it becomes obvious to me that there's no right answer to the question, it depends on the individual and the type of photography he/she is involved in, what might be essential to a sports photographer, might be useless for macro, or architectural photography.