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by left-struck 564 days ago
Alright here’s my counter point. The useful range (min focal length to max focal length) of most zooms is small enough that if you have a high end sensor and you’re not doing large prints you might as well use a prime. It’s like you don’t need those intermediate steps.

With zooms, if you need wide angle you have to switch to a wide angle zoom, if you need telephoto you need to switch to that. There are some exceptions like zooms that cover ~35-140 but most of them fall into one of the categories that a prime falls into