[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don't bring the camera to your eye until you are ready to take a picture. You are not ready to take a picture until you know what you want. Assuming that I'm not taking a picture of some fleeting moment event, that I can't position myself for, I look at the subject and light and figure out how I want that 3D scene projected onto a 2D plane. Then I go to the spot to get that, while setting things like focal length and aperture, look through the finder, tweak and shoot.
Bruce, That's also exactly what I do when using a zoom. I carefully choose the view I want to capture, raise the camera to my eye and zoom to include what I want and crop out what I don't. You cannot do this with a prime lens; you have to change your viewpoint to suit the only focal length that lens offers, and usually end up with a shot that is compromised. I genuinely used to believe that "zooming with your feet" with a good prime lens would always give the best results. Several years of experience using high quality Nikon zooms cured that, once and for all! With my Pentax outfit, I am using mainly primes. If I could find a selection of Pentax zooms that were optically as good as my Zoom Nikkors (20-35mm f/2.8 AF-D, 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D and 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D) I would change to them in an instant. My SMC Pentax 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 is an optical gem, despite several scratches on the front element and a loose barrel, but I haven't yet found any other Pentax zoom that comes up to Nikon standards. John
