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            I think I used 3 lenses here.  This one was shot with my FE24-105mmf4GOSS.   
I had to walk lots of kilos or miles here, so I just brought my FE20mm f1.8G, Batis 40mm f2CF and this FE24-105mmf4G.
It was quite windy and dusty, so I tried to avoid swapping lenses outside of my car.   Recently I've always had 3 cameras on me and almost never changed my lenses outside.

The cult of lenses 39-unecessary lens elitism is the biggest enemy of the camera industry:

First of all, I must say I really hate the term "CONVENIENCE ZOOM".  It is really pejorative and even rude.  

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, or both.

I think there are no ways I can shoot a typhoon documentary without my FE16-35mm f2.8GM zoom (or the FE12-24mm f2.8GM), 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.
That's why it is so special in the current E mount system, IMHO.

So as much as I hate zooms and carry around them on my left shoulder all the time, I sometimes must use that , or miss too many shots I need.

I had silly stigma of using zooms until I quit visiting these so called serious gearhead camera forums, 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( or whatever the sensor we use with zooms).

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(or COVID Omicron) 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 did not want to admit it , but now I must admit I've always needed it......other wise, I haven't bought 5 copies of the FE24-105mmf4G lenses in the last 5 years.

 Honestly I always hated so-called convenient zoom until I really realized I needed it or most of my shootings require it.

 Do not get me wrong, I just realize I need them but still do not like or love them..still dislike it(just not hate it any more) , but a lot of my shooting situations require it.   

A set of great primes with zooming with my feet method does not work great sometimes although I prefer that shooting method if it is my option there(as I love tiny primes like FE20mm f1.8G or Voigtlander 50mm f2 APO).

Let's be honest if the set of two primes set up work I would always use that method ( my choice of two tiny primes with 2 bodies).   But unfortunately it does not work for my weather documentary series or hiking photography in this kind of rural mountain villages.

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 still in a collage or with lots of collage debt want to buy a set of 5 or 6 expensive lenses(as Fred Miranda and similar guys recommend) every time they go out with their cameras. 

They need lots of money for many different things , so they cannot afford that. 

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.  Changing lenses in humid areas like this kill the sensor.   Still those camera elitist forums recommend every new FF shooter to buy a set of very expensive primes for every single FL available for his or her camera system, anyway. 

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 old engineers that think they must listen to the lens snobs in the extreme gearhead forums in stead of the main stream camera users.

I really think they should ignore the FM and LL 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) as I met many of those people in Vienna and New Castle in 2019 and 2021.

Taken on: November 9, 2021

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