Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow Mark, apart from some very specific uses I dislike the look of lenses wider than 35mm. If there are any people in the frame anyway... I still consider a 50 to be normal, and find I use 35 mostly. Wider than that I use once in a blue moon. Frank On 27 May, 2010, at 06:40, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> 24mm lens. That's been a really popular mainstream focal length over the >> years >> hasn't it. >> >> Steve >> >> On 26 May 2010, at 21:54, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> t's very cool and cute and flat 16mm pancake 2.8 becomes a very capable >>> 24mm lens for these NEX cameras. My advanced math skills tells me that >>> lens >>> would be a 32mm if they were talking about the crazy useless 2x crop >>> cameras. >> >> > Actually Steve Yes over the past ten or fifteen yes. A very popular and > conservative choice a 24 with a full frame camera. > The X1 comes with a LEICA ELMARIT 24 mm f/2.8 ASPH superglue to it so you > are shooting with a 35. That's the most widely critized aspect of the > camera > other than some possible slowness its needs a wider version. Which I'm sure > is in the wings. > When I started out in the late 70's all my street photographer friends were > either using 28's or 24's. Most of them 24 2.8 Nikkor. And that's what I > was using. A couple of tight wad ultra conservative types used a 28; that I > knew personally. I liked the results my 24mm friends were getting. So I got > that as my first serious lens. > The main lens now starting out and then on from there is is an ultrawide > zoom. Or just ultrawide. > For the Leica M in effect that wide tri elmar out now. 16-18-21 > A fixed lens; the Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm f/3.8 ASPH would be the one to > get to start out with as your first lens if you didn't want the tri elmar > wide. > Your 24 is when you want reach. Its your long lens. > > The days of photographers starting out with a 35 are long gone. > And certainly a 50. > We keep moving closer to our subjects and at the same time wanting more > angle of view. > > And by the way if you are using an 18mm 3.5 with an M8 what do you get? > A 24. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information