maandag, januari 13, 2003
Zooms are for fat people
Long ago when most cameras had 50mm lenses, if you tried to take a picture of a person 20 feet away and the image was too small, you simply walked in to 10 feet. But now many people are fantastically obese. Fatness is a modern epidemic. You will regularly see these 300+ pound lard tubs shuffling down the buffet line in the local Ponderosa with their plates piled a foot high with food, leaving a trail of droppings on the carpet behind them. Or you see them sitting in the theater or the subway where they take up two seats with their spreading fat. People didn't used to be fat like that long ago. Just a few were-and they were curiosities. But now there are millions of obese people and to meet their needs, the clever camera promoters have come out with small zooms such as 35-70mm or 43-86mm ... of slow speed, like F3.5, and inferior definition. They are intended just for these fat people. Now they can just sit there and adjust the zoom instead. They don't have to get up enough energy to walk. People today don't realize that changing the size of the image with the zoom has an entirely different effect from changing the shooting distance. But these little zooms have huge sales and the photo media touts them as the ultimate, and most people believe photo magazines as Gospel.
Ed Romney
# posted by Jan-Edward : 09:07
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