Les McLean
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also, say you are doing event photography and you have to get a picture of the same person at different distances within short spaces if time, you just couldn't get that picture if you were stuck at one focal length.
It's OK, my argument/point of view was only made half seriously, I don't disagree with you, I came a full circle working with primes in the 70/80's when zooms weren't up to much, embraced zooms when the quality came up to scratch, and find I'm much more comfortable with primes nowadays.
I do use zooms at the wide end, as I found that after spending half an hour getting a tripod set up correct along some limestone pavement in the Dales, then having to move/setup all again because I was using a prime, when with a zoom you can gently tweak the focal length to get the desired composition , making life so much easier.