Hi, I dunno that I "prefer" wide-angle lenses, but I certainly find that I use mine a lot (the widest I currently have is 28mm, until I get my Vivitar Series 1 24-48).
In addition to what Ann says, I take a lot of architectural shots, and find that "normal" lenses don't always allow me to get close enough to a building to eliminate things such as power lines and parked cars (assuming that I want to eliminate such things, which I don't always want to...). Sometimes a wide-angle is required, sometimes a tele, but it's nice to have both to (try to) cover any situation as it arises. There are also times that the background is extremely distracting, so the wide-angle lets me get in nice and close to a subject, virtually eliminating the background altogether: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=838798&size=lg So, I guess it's not so much a matter of preference as it is having wide-angles as another tool in "the arsenal". That being said, when I was much much younger, I took lots of sports shots, so I used telephotos of varying lengths a lot. But, I have to admit, I loved teles because those big huge suckers (as they were at the time) looked so damned cool hanging off my bodies. Now that I'm older and wiser (well, older, anyway), I'm just starting to realize how very useful wide-angles can be. regards, frank Ann Sanfedele wrote: > annsan "me toos" too - however... > > Here is why I do use my 28mm prime on occasion: > > (1) you can set the lens at f8 and line it up with the lines on the barrel for >hyperfocal distance > and everything will be sharp from infinity to about as close as the lens would >focus. If you > need that much depth of field and have to shoot quickly it is very handy. > (2) you can get sneaky grab shots. Don't think I need to elaborate much here, right? > (3) when what you want all of in your picture doesnt fit on your 50mm. > > (4) It is very useful in my small apartment to get all of something in that I'm >selling on ebay > when there is no way to back up farther than a certain distance. -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
