Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I either have > not yet learned to be a wide angle person (in 40+ years of > photography) or I > am afraid to get "too close". I like the look I get with the 75 > and 90 mm > lenses. > > I have since replaced the M3 with an M6HM. I love it for 50mm and longer. > > Ken > Documentary photographer Bill Burke postulates the following: That there is a correlation between the focal length of a shooter's favorite lens and the age of the shooter. Like any such theory, this one has its exceptions. But isn't it odd how many students in their late teens gravitate toward fisheyes and extreme wides. Then come the 20s and the 21s and 24s. Then conservatism begins to rear its ugly head, and the 35 takes over. And as we age, the 50 we discarded in our youth begins to look pretty good. Granted, I'm about to be 52 and I use my 35 more than my 50, but in years past I didn't even own a 50 and now I use it at least 30 percent of the time. And I sold my 21 to get the 35 asph....Go figure, as the kids I work with say. :-) B. D.