If, like me, you graduated to digital SLR photography from digital point and shoots, you’re very familiar with zoom lenses: they’re flexible, easy to understand and mean you get tightly-framed shots (or expansively wide landscapes) without swapping lenses or having to walk back and forth to compose your shot.
This sounds good, but for SLRs this flexibility comes at a very high cost in image quality, low-light ability, creative control, price and stealth capabilities.
The truth is, unless you’re completely loaded, most of the time you’d be better off shooting with lenses that don’t zoom – prime lenses.
Let’s look at the benefits:
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