I don't have that much OM gear. But whenever I've been struck by that
feeling of "Why did I buy this?" I almost immediately sell it or swap it for
something different. (A Canon T50 was like that - an oversized P&S
disguised as an SLR. Okay, actually I bought it for my mom to use so she
could borrow my lenses, but she's too nearsighted to focus manually, so now
she has an iS-2.)
But if I owned a 100mm prime, it would qualify. Tried 'em, used 'em
regularly at work, never felt compelled to own one. I prefer the little bit
of extra magnification and/or subject distance the 135mm allows. I'll bet
we could drag out a mighty debate over the "perfect portrait lens" dead
horse.
I also suspect that if I owned a 500mm or longer telephoto it would soon
qualify after the novelty wore off. There's no substitute for getting
closer, and I note most top nature photographers manage with teles shorter
than 500mm.
And I keep thinking a 1-10 grid screen would be useful. Then I wonder why.
Lessee, what else? Oh, yeh...complicated flash gear. I guess I'm just too
thickskulled to understand much more than a clip-on flash. Ever since I
figured out the walk-back-zoom-in method of fill flash, I'm not sure I even
want to understand TTL flash.
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Lex Jenkins
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