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
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