Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/19

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Subject: [Leica] Is 35 the Current 50?
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:05:38 -0600
References: <2259218D-D9D2-454A-ADA3-1654726E76DF@btinternet.com> <CD1FDF53.3CEB%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
==On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
rabinergroup.com>wrote:

> You shoot a crowd of people with a 28 you turn them all into a bunch of
> midgets.


<snip>


> If your using Leica not Nikon optics the heads at the edges are
> less watermelon like.
>
>
So if I'm shooting people or dogs with a film or full frame digital Leica -
particularly if I am reasonably close to them - I'm still going to get more
accurate representations of their physical selves if I use a 50 rather than
a 35?

Does that mean the laws of optics have not changed very much over the last
sixty years?

--Bob
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