Route 500 at Sarayama - a photo on Flickriver

            During the winter season it is always nice and calm here , very beautiful with lots of nice flowers like cyclamen, winter roses , winter cherries , camellias and many others.

I love the winter season here, December or November might be the safest month here.

The cult of lenses 34-so called convenience zoom mockery often seen in most gearhead camera forums is really stupid(and also an extremely outdated anachronistic concept).

I think without the so called convenience zoom , I could not shoot most of the images I shot here as changing lenses in this place was literally impossible.

Many people mock the FE24-105mm f4G or any of these type of zooms or even any zooms, but some times for a documentary kind of shooting we need one of these so called convenience zooms or some set of f2.8 zooms.

I think there are no ways I can shoot a typhoon documentary without my FE16-35mm f2.8GM zoom , and I always find these weather documentary works even require some sort of zoom that covers most of typically used wide to portrait focal range(like the FE24-105mm ).  And in my Sony system despite of all the recent amazing lens releases there is still only one of this kind of zoom that can shoot everything- the FE24-105mm f4GOSS.

So as much as I hate zooms and carry around them with me all the time (just like many lens snobs in FM forums), I sometimes must use that , or miss too many shots I need.

I had silly stigma of using zooms, and really afraid of one of  my old friends or fellow students see me with zooms in a public place.  Now I think I conquer the stigma. I think I was just very insecure and naive , but 4 years ago I was seriously worried about that as I was really brainwashed to believe shooting with zooms would mean not being serious about lens quality and wasting most of the potential of the best Sony sensor.

Many camera forums challenge you if you favor or prefer zooms to a set of heavy high end primes you do not need a FF , or if you do not use the best possible primes in your system , that means you do not need a FF body as you are not a serious shooter , etc.......

I think this kind of very elitist and pejorative or condescending zoom insulting or hating posts in many of the most diehard camera lens forums is the real cancer of photographic forums.   I think these comments really taking the best or the most fun part of photography experience or video-graphy experience away from most of the diehard forum denizens that follow these all zooms are a crap and for non-serious people mentality.

I mean it does not matter if you love it or not, but many of us actually need these so called CONVENIENCE ZOOMS.

 I hated it too, and still dislike it , but a lot of my shooting situations require it.

A set of great primes with zooming with my feet method never work sometimes although I prefer that shooting method if it is my option there.

And this place is one of these places I really need a 24-xxx zoom or I get nothing.  

I think the forum lens snobs and that lens-elitist snobbery culture hurting the photographic industry more than anything else.

The high entry cost of a versatile set of good or decent lenses is really killing the industry.  No young people want to carry 5 or 6 lenses(as Fred Miranda and similar guys recommend) every time they go out with their cameras.  

And unless you live in a dry and clean area like Yosemite , you can not get away with just a set of the very best primes in your camera system.

That extreme lens optics obsessed photographic culture in the majority of camera forums is really 90's minded.  Now we can use computation based IQ enhancements in addition to the classic optics based techs, so these lenses could have made cheaper and smaller if the designers wanted to make it that way, these are big by the design decision and arrogance of a few engineers that think they must listen to the lens snob in the extreme gearhead forums.

I really think they should ignore the FM kind of forums and should focus on the young collage kids who are still interested in system cameras(there are many of them in Asia and I think in Western Europe too).

Taken on: January 2, 2019

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