[Leica] How did 50mm become the "normal" lens for 35mm cameras?

[Mark Rabiner]

If I'm using not a wide and I'm shooting stuff which is wider than my lens I
shoot a number of shots over the area  left to right with the idea  of
merging them probably later. So in effect I'm getting a swing lens pan
though its a stitch.
So its getting wide without  making things look far away.
Like what you get in with a swing lens.
Its may way of thinking outside the box as I'm making my own multi box.


On 9/22/16 3:10 PM, "Henning J. Wulff" <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with that, Mark. But I would also add that circumstances and what you
> see/are looking at changes your personal 'angle of view' significantly. When
> I'm shooting wildlife or something else that is generally small and at a
> distance, due to my concentration I see more 'long focus' at that point with
> 200-400mm being a likely range. Similarly, when I'm shooting architecture, my
> eyes scan a lot and my concentration on that make an 'angle of view' are
> definitely a lot wider, especially with interiors. In fact, one of the cameras
> I used to really like a lot because it 'saw' what I saw was the Noblex series,
> with a 24/28mm equivalent vertical and 130° horizontal view without the 3d to
> 2d distortion in the extreme corners. Then again, when I'm just walking down
> the street, 35mm matches my main area of concentration while 85-105mm matches
> my focus when I'm talking to people one on one. That's what makes that a good
> portrait lens, in conjunction with the ability to get rid of distractions when
> using appropriate apertures. 50mm works with a small (2 or 3) group of people
> or concentrating on a specific event on the street.
> 
> Henning Wulff
> hjwulff at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-09-21, at 3:03 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> Its just that the unaided eye does not really have a frame it looks through.
>> Its sees the whole room but is only concentrated on a small object in it.
>> Its a tele mounted in a super wide.
>> So its darned hard to impossible to state what the angle of the unaided eye
>> is.  Its a sharp 180mm in a bokeh infused 12mm. I don't think we can round
>> these two numbers off and come up with something. As I understand it some
>> people use their peripheral vision differently.
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/21/16 4:58 PM, "Lew Schwartz" <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I believe that Bill C. is correct. It's relative to what you see with your
>>> unaided eye.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Lew Schwartz
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The normal camera lens now if you want to define normal as "most used by
>>>> the
>>>> most photogs most often for most stuff" is the wide angle zoom. Which has
>>>> come to be the 18 to 35 zoom. This for photojournalists as well as
>>>> commercial photogs and probably fine art dudes too. It started out being a
>>>> 20 to 35. But time flew.
>>>> I had a 12-24 for my cropped Nikons which translates to that.
>>>> Not sure if I'm going to get a 20mm 1.8 to go with my new 35 1.8 and 50 1.8
>>>> and do some quick back and forth running or go with the zoom.
>>>> 
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