Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks like the 50mm's are winning here. Of course it's all personal preference, however, I like wide angles--a lot. I own only one M lens and it's the 35mm Summicron, and I am happy with the choice. My second lens would be the 90mm Summicron. I've used a two camera combo with these focal lengths (35/105 on motorized Nikons) for a long time and find it ideal. I hope to have this combo on a pair of M6's before I check out. If anyone wants to let a user go real reasonable... The reason I like the 35mm is that you can include a lot of environment without getting the wide angle look, just stay roughly parallel to the planes in the composition. You also can create a mild wide angle effect by letting the lines run on 30 angles in the composition, or you can do anything in between. When you go to 28 and 24 lenses you got lotsa effect all the time. When you go to 50mm you exclude a lot of the background and neutralize perspective. Over half of my small format images are done with 35mm lenses and I have six lenghts to choose from. And it is nice when you can tuck it all in a jacket pocket. John Tice jontic@bev.net Blacksburg, Va. >------------------- >>It's a matter of choice. I personally find wide-angle stuff exceedingly >>boring and therefore rarely use my wide-angles; my 90mm's, on the other >>hand, are the lenses I use the most. > >>Marc >>msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >