Use The Wrong Lens

What bad timing, Scott sends his viewers my way and I go and move the darn blog! You're one click away - go HERE for the same post on the new blog.

Sorry for the inconvenience - but the new blog is WAY sexier. See you there.

Comments

[gary S. Chapman]

Funny you should have an 85mm 1.2 as the photo for the lead of this "Wrong Lens" post. This lens is such a great piece of glass. But, it is so heavy and slow that I have only taken it overseas once. I bought an 85mm 1.8 to replace it and I'm just about as happy. I may even sell the 1.2! On my trips I try to take my standard lenses to cover 24-200mm, 1-2 fast lenses and a wild-card lens like a tilt-shift or super-wide to make me think creatively.

[david]

You let me know if you decide to sell the 85/1.2, Gary. I'm sure I'll decide the same thing as you, but I prefer to learn my lessons the hard way and I think my WV work would be a good fit for this lens. On the other hand, maybe it's just so tempting because of all that glass.

I would love a tilt-shift lens to play with - have often thought a portrait series with a perspective lens would be really cool. Lucky guy.

[Peter Collins]

Great blog post! I was thinking about this after reading Scott Kelby's post a few days ago. If you're a pro I can certainly understand being in a position of having the "wrong" lens but just traveling or on a photo outing I don't think it's possible. I would totally agree with thinking creatively with whatever gear you have. I'm a huge fan of primes for this very reason. Going on an outing with my rangefinder or just a 50mm prime lens is a great exercise in creativity.

Thanks for the great post.

[Stefan]

Well said. When your working for someone else its one thing, but I truly believe that we can never have every piece of gear with us nor do we need it! Just like life in general we need to make use of what we have at any one moment. I was once in Belize on a group expedition and one particular day I only had my 24-105mm lens and made the best of it. Normally I would have zoomed right in on that pale billed woodpecker but instead I got a great shot of a long palm with with the woodpecker on it.