Most over rated feature

alexmacphee · May 22, 2010

SilverGlow said:
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. · May 22, 2010

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 · May 23, 2010

Q.G. said:
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 · May 23, 2010

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.

Most over rated feature

alexmacphee

Q.G.

alexmacphee

benjiboy

Privacy & Transparency

Privacy & Transparency