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Is it the equipment?

A couple of essays recently on other sites are amusing to read: Ken Rockwell and Michael Reichmann. The essays speak volumes about their respective authors—the word “strident” comes to mind.

My befuddled viewpoint:

  • If I don’t like using a camera or lens then I won’t use it. That matters more than just about anything else!
  • Strong images can be made with any camera and any lens (or no lens), but some images require specific capabilities (eg macro and telephoto).
  • I respond visually; lenses and their “look” matter to me. Not just any lens will do. But any lens will do for many images.
  • Not having the right lens is frustrating. But check your premises and make a good image with whatever you have—it’s the right lens since it’s what you have.
  • Too many lenses is frustrating. Too few lenses is frustrating. There is no right number of lenses. Zooms are best. Primes are best. It all depends.
  • More and more I’m wanting to simplify. Logic dictates a zoom, but I really like the Zeiss ZF primes (image rendition, size, weight, build quality).

Confused? Me too. Find what works for you and don’t worry about anyone else. I’m still figuring out what works best for me—it’s not easy. But I do find that how a camera operates matters to me, and I do find that restricting myself to 1-2 lenses is often much more productive. The particular lenses chosen can change for any given outing, but limiting the number of lenses to one or two is very useful in bringing “focus” to one’s efforts. Try it sometime—it really works.

Bottom line: if I had to choose one camera and one lens, I would choose the Nikon D3 and the Zeiss ZF 28/2 Distagon. Or maybe the 50/2 Makro-Planar or 35/2 Distagon. It wouldn’t matter that much, it would just mean I would make images that worked for that particular lens, and I’d become very good at exploiting that particular lens. Not a bad goal to have.


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