A lot of Leica shooters will have been triggered by the headline, I realize that, and I acknowledge your reaction. Prime lenses have long been associated with classic street photography, and users of systems such as the M-series from Leica have been producing masterpieces with fixed focal length optics for decades.
In fact, many devotees of street and reportage photography swear by them and won’t shoot with anything else. So, with such a pedigree for taking images that stand the test of time and that have achieved iconic status, why have I developed such a heretical opinion against primes?
