{"id":19447,"date":"2017-10-06T04:16:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19447"},"modified":"2017-10-04T04:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T08:21:07","slug":"trenitalia-double-deck-at-roma-trastevere-zoom-versus-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/trenitalia-double-deck-at-roma-trastevere-zoom-versus-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Trenitalia Double Deck at Roma Trastevere; Zoom versus Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a bright morning last week when I exposed this view of a Trenitalia double-deck suburban train approaching its station stop at Rome Trastevere en route to Roma Termini (Rome\u2019s main station).<\/p>\n

I worked with my FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm f2.0 lens for this photo.<\/p>\n

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Exposed using a FujiFilm XT1 fitted with a Fujinon f2.0 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Regular readers may have noticed that I\u2019ve been making regular use of this camera\/lens combination.<\/p>\n

I have four lens for my FujiFilm XT1; 12\/27\/90mm fixed focal length (prime) lenses, plus an 18-135mm zoom lens. Lately the 27 and 90mm primes have been the most useful.<\/p>\n

Why not use the zoom lens more? Here\u2019s three reasons:<\/p>\n

1) The 18-135mm zoom not as fast as the primes. My 90mm f2 is 2.5\/3 stops faster that the 18-135mm.<\/p>\n

2) The 18-135mm zoom isn\u2019t as sharp.<\/p>\n

3) I find that the discipline of working with a fixed focal length lenses lends to stronger images. This is an abstract notion, but often seems to be true.<\/p>\n

Over the years I\u2019ve gone back and forth between a preference for zooms over primes. It\u2019s the toss up of convenience over image quality. There\u2019s no one \u2018right\u2019 solution. But when I look back at my images that I prize the most, many of them have been exposed using prime glass.<\/p>\n

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It was a bright morning last week when I exposed this view of a Trenitalia double-deck suburban train approaching its station stop at Rome Trastevere en route to Roma Termini (Rome\u2019s main station). I worked with my FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm f2.0 lens for this photo. Regular readers may have noticed that I\u2019ve been making … Continue reading Trenitalia Double Deck at Roma Trastevere; Zoom versus Prime<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4382,4147,4381,4380,4383,4384,4379],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FS_Rome_DSCF9566.jpg?fit=1155%2C1732","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-53F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19448,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions\/19448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}