"Wayne J. Cosshall" wrote
No you are not. But of course with newcomers migrating to dSLRs all the
time it does need to be said again and again. It see it with my incoming
students all the time. Their idea of a fast lens is f4 and a really fast
one f2.8. It is the zoom mentality. Now nothing wrong with zooms, I love
my ones, but they are not the whole answer.


Not mentioned in Mark's article:
The need for a "fast" lens has become less pressing with today's DSLRs
providing for 4- stop ISO changes, e.g. from ISO 100 to 800, with virtually
no sharpness / noise penalties (and decent pictures even at 1600 or 3200),.
Get me right, I love to use my f1.4 prime lens and agree with the
"Cartier-Bresson" approach to learn to see through just one focal length. On
the other hand, Mark's "No more zoom in, zoom out. You've got to look for
the right subject and the right composition" is misleading. Any decent
photographer w/o a zoom will use his legs to get the right framing!
Cheers,
Hank