In brief: don’t buy a cheap zoom lens.

May 4, 2009

When you’re learning a craft, the best tool to use is the one that shows you the limits of your ability. It’s the eight-inch chef’s knife, the bolt-action rifle, the fast normal prime lens. It exposes your shortcomings long before any of its own flaws come into play. The perfect tool for a student to use isn’t the one that does anything you want—it’s the one that makes you choose what to want.

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  • 1. eric Sorenson  |  September 14, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    A couple of examples from my sphere of experience:

    the piston-lever espresso machine
    a hand-cranked coffee roaster (or ice cream maker)
    the single-speed bicycle
    as-distributed perl/ruby without CPAN/gems

    Aye.

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