Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like using a 60mm too its on my camera now and has been for a week. Last week I posted some of the results. But for all around use you can back up and hit a wall. Or go over a cliff. I'd love to have the 35 or 28 or wider in the bag with me if I'm out and somebody expects me to come home with the shot and I'm not sure what I'll be getting myself into when I'm doing the thing. I drop my featherweight and compact and cheap and sharp 50mm 1.8 in the bottom of my bag for reach. Its my long lens with some grabbing power as I and most people do to be spending most of the time out shooting with a wide or wide zoom. Hell by far the most popular lens now with Pj's and street shooters are not wide zooms but ultra wide zooms. I think for a reason. They just get the shot. A 14-24 or a 16-35. That does not mean you cant decide that a 50 is the most "useful" lens "for you". I'd just not shoot myself in the foot. Keep the 35. Its not a bad thing to have in some closet somewhere. On 1/18/13 3:45 AM, "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > I like the formalist approach; few have the skill and talent to do it, and > I use standard lenses (50 on my Leicas, 80mm on my Hasselblad) for a great > deal of my work. -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/