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Yup, you don't even see the "holy trinity"(35L/85L/135L) anywhere in the top 10. Neat data aggregation but there's a lot more that goes on in lens selection.

ekianjo 10y ago
Because you take less photos with those as you need to change the whole time depending on the situation. Not surprising on the contrary.
- vvanders 10y ago
  You can also zoom with your feet :). If I know I'm going to need multiple focal lengths I'll usually use two bodies but I find the constraints of a prime lens to force me to think about composition and give better results overall.
  - ekianjo 10y ago
    > If I know I'm going to need multiple focal lengths I'll usually use two bodies Sure but the amount of people using and carrying two bodies is very limited compared to the ones who have only one or only want to travel light. >I find the constraints of a prime lens to force me to think about composition and give better results overall. Yes and no. There are pictures you just cannot take without a zoom - you can only zoom with your feet if the subject is on a path where you can actually walk.
    - mobiuscog 10y ago
      > There are pictures you just cannot take without a zoom - you can only zoom with your feet if the subject is on a path where you can actually walk. That's what crop is for ;)
    - vvanders 10y ago
      > Yes and no. There are pictures you just cannot take without a zoom - you can only zoom with your feet if the subject is on a path where you can actually walk. Well, if you want to get that pedantic the longest focal length lenses Canon makes aren't zooms, they're primes ;). If we're talking professional photographers all of them are going to be using two bodies(aside from the craigslist specials) simply because having your one body die on-shoot is going to make for a very unhappy clients. Like a parent comment mentioned earlier, this dataset looks shifted towards the non-professional dataset which is important to consider when looking at the data.

ekianjo 10y ago

Because you take less photos with those as you need to change the whole time depending on the situation. Not surprising on the contrary.

vvanders 10y ago
You can also zoom with your feet :). If I know I'm going to need multiple focal lengths I'll usually use two bodies but I find the constraints of a prime lens to force me to think about composition and give better results overall.
- ekianjo 10y ago
  > If I know I'm going to need multiple focal lengths I'll usually use two bodies Sure but the amount of people using and carrying two bodies is very limited compared to the ones who have only one or only want to travel light. >I find the constraints of a prime lens to force me to think about composition and give better results overall. Yes and no. There are pictures you just cannot take without a zoom - you can only zoom with your feet if the subject is on a path where you can actually walk.
  - mobiuscog 10y ago
    > There are pictures you just cannot take without a zoom - you can only zoom with your feet if the subject is on a path where you can actually walk. That's what crop is for ;)
  - vvanders 10y ago
    > Yes and no. There are pictures you just cannot take without a zoom - you can only zoom with your feet if the subject is on a path where you can actually walk. Well, if you want to get that pedantic the longest focal length lenses Canon makes aren't zooms, they're primes ;). If we're talking professional photographers all of them are going to be using two bodies(aside from the craigslist specials) simply because having your one body die on-shoot is going to make for a very unhappy clients. Like a parent comment mentioned earlier, this dataset looks shifted towards the non-professional dataset which is important to consider when looking at the data.