Why I use Primes over Zooms (Most of the time)
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I used for many years zooms only! Then there was a time I got a 300 2.8 Tamron for fashion. It wasn’t until I started doing street photography that I went from zooms to primes, what a huge difference it made in my photography. Really isolating my subject from the background, but you have to be careful not to shoot wide open all the time. So I usually take about three prime lenses at a time when I’m shooting. I like to mix it up from time to time.
I use the 18 1.4, 23 1.4, 33 1.4, 50 F2, 56 1.2, 90 F2. So I guess you can say I really got to like primes!
But when I’m traveling, I usually take my 16-55 2.8 and my 90 F2 🤣🖖
Well I think photographers go through phases and circumstances, I'm a father/ husband hobbyist photographer so practicality is the theme for me most of the time making the 16-55mm almost live glued to my camera. Don't get me wrong, it's my most used lens and I enjoy it.
And to some degree I definitely agree with you that zoom lenses are about capturing the moment, not letting your position or distance get on the way of capturing that photograph.
Yet personally I always overpack lenses with me, I always carry a few primes for the particular purposes I've planned, and if I did or didn't use them that's a different story, but I agree that primes are "precision" tools, while zoom lenses are "gotta catch them all".
I firmly believe that planing and the lack of planing is a big decision factor + the variable of the rarety of the moment may push photographers to choose one over the other and that's depending where in their photography journey they are at.
Zooms can be a discovery tool as you've mentioned, but to some zooms are indispensable tools which no prime could replace. So you'll find all types of photographers out there.
I'm probably the worst of them 🤣 boy, lenses for me are like Pokémon, even those you think are a bit ugly or you'd rarely use are in the dex to be caught 😂😂😂
In all seriousness, I highly enjoy primes too, especially if I'm alone, and/or there is a family expectation that I'll be taking longer than usual than snap snap snap, so I've been using more primes whenever possible. And I wish I had more fast primes because a good portion of my photography is during dark hours and that really stretch what the 16-55mm can do.
I've been shooting more film as well, and I really like the Super Takumar 50mm f1.4, so much that I use it with my X-T4 as well, just don't leave it there due to the radiation ☢.
I also love niche lenses which I prefer over zooms with similar capabilites, like the Laowa 9mm f2.8 zero D over the Fuji 10-24mm f4, or the Laowa 65mm f2.8 macro over the Fuji 16-80mm f4 and it isn't just about aperture, I simply enjoy that look and feel those lenses render over the Fuji zooms.
If I know I'll be shooting 16mm all day long I'll be caring the 16mm f1.4 all the time, I have the f2.8 but I don't like it nearly as much.
However, personally speaking, I don't like or really appreciate the view of some that zooms are for newbies and primes are for pros. Lenses are tools, merely mediums to carry the image to the sensor, each with their uses and properties.
The shallower we become the faster we'll fall on the full frame VS aps-c talks "because real pros don't use anything else but full frame".
Lens selection should naturally vary based on one's needs and wants, and what exactly you're aiming for when photographing.
I'm probably one of the subs who got your channel quite early on with 25 subs at most and back then the theme for you was testing photography with zoom lenses, and that's quite normal for many, and as time progressed and your photography style and shooting environment including circumstances changed you've adapted, but I'm sure if you're packing to a brand new dastination, with no expectation of what to shoot and where or how, you'll be picking up that 16-55mm right back on. It's not about novice VS pro, or time being a photographer, it's a life journey and experience acquiring to better choose your tools for the moment.
Just like being a photographer VS being a videographer are two so completely different things in practice, yet more and more cameras are catering to both needs.
I believe that if we reach a day where compromise becomes so much of a minimal thing, primes VS zoom will be much less of a topic as it is today.
Thanks for the video as usual 😎👍👍
Can't wait to visit Japan again.
For Travel I always bring one medium Zoom and 1-2 primes. One for street & one for landscape. So both have their own use.
I started with Prime lenses but ended up with the 16-55 2.8 glued to my camera 95% of the time for work. I treat my zoom lens like a bag of primes after learning the characteristics I can get with different focal lengths. I still prefer prime lenses when I travel tho
That's an interesting point of view 😎👍 I prefer zooms for travel, especially if I must pack light. The 16-55mm is normal my jack of all trades, unless I know I'm shooting in bright condition and I need the extra reach then I may stretch to the 16-80mm f4.
If I had a prime for general street photography I'd probably gravitate between 23mm and 33mm. If I had a body with the new 40MP sensor I'd probably go for 23mm and crop it in post.
My personal issue is that when I travel with zooms, I tend or try to carry 3 lenses tops (2 zooms + 1 prime) and if I were to packs only primes I'd probably carry 4 primes tops yet still not have same focal range coverage. The main deal is the time swapping lenses, guess my lack of practice is to blame.
What are your main primes?
@@williamaungleyraud My main prime is the 33mm but I travel with the 23mm most of the time (the 33 stays in my bag just in case). In some cases I put the 70-300 in my bag when I go on a hike or something
It's the exact debate I'm having with myself this week. I use fuji 18-55, and I'm thinking if I should invest in prime lens, eyeing 33 1.4, but will I use it often? Will I feel a difference compared to kit lens? i'm just hobbyist, ahhh, choices choices 😂
Same here. XT3+18-55.
My next lens will be between the xf 16-55, tamron 17-70, and 33 1.4.
I don’t have a particular niche yet, so I’m favoring the zooms.
@@elliscofield9756 I'm sure there must be good comparisons between the Fuji 16-55mm and Tamron 17-70mm. I've got the 16-55mm because at the time there was no Tamron for Fuji x mount, but I really hoped that it would've come with OIS so I could replace my Fuji 16-80mm f4.
@@elliscofield9756 That 18-55 is trully great lens, it not too bulky, great image quality, but every now and then I get drawn in by the hype of 35 f1.4 or 33, which is on discount in my country at the moment, and is alluring me even more. I use whole zoom range, and love the flexibility of it, maybe more useful would be 55-200 or 70-300, have you any experience with them?