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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 210105" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Whether a 50mm, 35mm, 85mm or any other fixed length lens, learning to shoot with a single Prime lens is essential to developing your eye as a photographer.&nbsp; Zooms can be a crutch (that I will lean on often) as they allow you to find the photo in a given area and bring it to you, rather than hunting for the photo and then going and getting it.&nbsp; Even if you've learned how to work with a single lens it doesn't hurt to go back and do it again.&nbsp; I've seen blogs from experienced photographers where they take a single camera and fixed lens and shoot with nothing but that for a year.&nbsp; I imagine that you'd struggle at first, but keeping with it I think you can do nothing but become a better photographer.&nbsp; I'd love to try it, but I also know that I'd cave when I'm presented with that once in a lifetime opportunity to visit somewhere in the middle of it.&nbsp; That said, I'd benefit from making a 50mm my one and only &quot;walk-around&quot; lens for, say, 3-6 months.&nbsp; I might just need to do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 210105, member: 9240"] Whether a 50mm, 35mm, 85mm or any other fixed length lens, learning to shoot with a single Prime lens is essential to developing your eye as a photographer. Zooms can be a crutch (that I will lean on often) as they allow you to find the photo in a given area and bring it to you, rather than hunting for the photo and then going and getting it. Even if you've learned how to work with a single lens it doesn't hurt to go back and do it again. I've seen blogs from experienced photographers where they take a single camera and fixed lens and shoot with nothing but that for a year. I imagine that you'd struggle at first, but keeping with it I think you can do nothing but become a better photographer. I'd love to try it, but I also know that I'd cave when I'm presented with that once in a lifetime opportunity to visit somewhere in the middle of it. That said, I'd benefit from making a 50mm my one and only "walk-around" lens for, say, 3-6 months. I might just need to do that. [/QUOTE]

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