Fixed Focal Length Lenses?

[Gene Moore]

I'll approach this question a different way, not from the lenses but the camera. I think to do primes correctly you should have two camera bodies sitting in the car seat ready to go. I (like Mike) am addicted to my EF 10-22, but there are times it just won't work and a lens change is necessary. Problem is, in storm chasing much of the action comes at once. Think about the time scale of it, 4 hours of forecasting, 8 hours of driving to the storm, 3 hours of trying to maintain position .....and all hell breaks loose in 5-10 minutes. Many times a whole season narrows down to a few great opportunities on a couple select days. We just have to be ready for those moments and not fumbling with lenses. This makes a good argument for zooms, but in some situations, especially in low light the primes are still the best.

 

[Scott Bell]

Thanks for the discussion guys. My concern was definitely the fact that the 50mm is not as wide as I'd like to have. Mike's argument is valid. I think I was trying to shoehorn a lens into too many different uses

As for the Sony's ISO settings, I have the A100, and it goes up to 1600, but with the A100, performance begins to go pretty quickly above 400. From what I've read, the 700 is MUCH better.