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Originally Posted by Terry Zorich What if the question were: If you had to live with just three PRIME Nikkors, which ones would you recommend? (It might be interesting to go 'all primes' for this experiment...) |
Everyone talks about prime lenses being so much better (sharper) than zoom lenses. As a photographer, I paid particular attention to the groups of photographers at the Olympics. It did not matter if they were shooting white lenses (Canon) or dark lenses (probably Nikons), but just about every photographer there was shooting with a zoom lens.
I realize that they do not know exactly where they will be positioned when photographing and the zoom lens can give them some flexibility, but the overwhelming majority using zooms speaks volumes to me as how good the zoom lenses have become.
Years ago practically all of our lenses were primes except for the 80-200 Nikkor. Now, the only primes we own are the 14mm and the 20mm Nikkor and having bought the 17-55 Nikkor I almost never use the 20mm.
We also have a couple of Tamron zoom lenses which are great.