[Dabhand16]

Unlike zoom lenses, primes do have specific uses where they do best - that is where their focal length is ideal for a particular type of photography.

I know I have already said the it is best not to constrain what you do by thinking of an indoor lens or a family lens, but within that, it is obvious that although you can use a short lens for wildlife, better results will usually come from a telephoto. (Unless you are after a specific effect or result).

So I would say that maybe you have missed the point of the 50mm lens. You have put it into the category of a lens you can use without a flash. I would see it as the ideal lens for portraits, with the bonus that it has a low-light capability too. It does have other things it can do, but as with all prime lenses, you have to work a bit more to get the best out of them. This could mean that you have to have awareness of the depth of field it has at any given apature, but it also means that if you want to get the framing right and you do not want to crop the image, you have got to move closer to or further from the subject.

Zoom lenses do make us all lazy.