How to choose the Prime Lens that suits your style

[Dave Humphries]

I think you would be well-served in picking out your top 100 photos, or 50, or whatever number of photos it takes to come up with the group of ones you love and cherish the most and re-run the numbers.

Hi Tom,

I think you have a valid point here.

FWIW, when I have the 70-300mm fitted for wildlife, I wouldn't mind betting that about 70% are taken at 300mm - but that's just the nature of the subject - nearly always too far away.

However, when I have the walkabout town 18-200mm on, I am sure I use any focal length as necessary and I doubt analysis would show any great prevalence at either end of the range.

If I need longer, I can always pop on the 70-300mm, if I need wider, I don't currently have anything that fits, so may be I'm wrong

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[Shadowman]

Cost is I think the other issue I think. The higher quality zoom lenses are more expensive than one or two primes, although if you were to get enough primes to cover the zoom range you might be looking at an equivalent cost.

And again the weight issue (if the photographer carried a range of primes) would arise based on the photographers needs at that particular time.