Originally Posted by Garrett-Grimsley
I love my prime lenses too, but if I'm just walking around, and don't know what's going to be happening, my zoomsare the more usual suspects.
Sometimes I walk around with a prime, just because... but zooms enable an extra level of flexiblity to get a shot that won't wait for you to zoom with your feet.
My primes are all sharper than equivalent zooms, though some of the zooms are dang sharp, and practically speaking from the quality of the image as a whole, printed reasonably large, quite fine. My 35mm prime is significantly sharper than my 16-35mm zoom at 35mm f2.8. At 100% crop you can see it easily. Printed 10x15, might be difficult.
Now, my fast primes just STOMP all over my fastest zooms in terms of light gathering ability.
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