[Leica] Leica Q3 43mm lens just announced

[Brian Reid]

> Especially intimate
> portraits the longer focal length will be far more flattering.

Basically all I do is portraits. I'm not in the same class as, say, Alan 
Magayne-Roshak, but generally the people whose portraits I take say they 
like them.

My experience is that the focal length of the lens only affects how much 
you have to crop the frame. My benchmark portrait lens is the LTM Elmar 
9cm f4, but I have found that if my distance to the subject is the same 
with my Q2 28mm, I get the same pose and perspective as I get with the 
90mm Elmar. The whole trick is to stand where you would stand with a 
90mm lens, and resist the temptation to get closer. The Q2 has enough 
pixels that a digital crop yields good results.