Need your help...getting ready to preorder the D7000

[Jcampbelll]

Really? It seems it wouldn't matter if you compose by turning a ring on a zoom lens, or moving forward or backward. You are composing by altering the field-of-view either way. :scratch:

It forces you to frame your subjects by yourself, teaching you to rely on your own eye rather than changing the focal length of a zoom lens.

 

[iAstonish]

Really? It seems it wouldn't matter if you compose by turning a ring on a zoom lens, or moving forward or backward. You are composing by altering the field-of-view either way. :scratch:

It forces you to frame your subjects by yourself, teaching you to rely on your own eye rather than changing the focal length of a zoom lens.

What KMH is saying is that you are framing by yourself regardless. Telephoto lenses don't magically zoom in and out and frame for you either.

 

[Sw1tchFX]

I would skip the kit lens and get a prime. And get the 35mm 1.8 or 50mm 1.8.

This is what i'd do. Midrange zooms are slow and boring.


EDIT: I think what Jcampbelll is trying to say is that zooms have the potential to make lazy photographers. Say you're walking down the street and you see something that would be a good picture, with the zoom lens, you zoom in, snap the shot, move on. With the prime, where you're standing might not work, so you have to move around, make it work, and in the process, you'd automatically be more conscious of what you're doing. All the time, people shooting only at eye level and using a zoom to get "closer", Often people think that the purpose of the zoom is to simply get the shot without moving their feet.


Good reads:

http://www.bythom.com/you.htm

http://www.bythom.com/lensweek.htm