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04/24/2002 Entry: "Forgotten Lens"

Lights from Car Window

Most people who decide to buy a camera kit usually get the body and a single zoom lens (28-80 or thereabouts). This was not always so. For a very long time, the standard lens that would come with your camera was the 50mm. Recently, I purchased a new camera, and a 50mm lens for it. I've only shot with it a single day, but it's redefining the photos I'm taking. Recomposing now means walking forward or walking back, not just twisting the zoom ring. My photos were interesting today because of the elements within them, not the exaggerated distortion of a wide angle, or the compression you get with a long zoom lens. In some small way, it was a day to rediscover photography.

Gary Voth makes an eloquent statement in The Forgotten Lens in support of the 50mm lens.

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