Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] Super wides
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@netconnect.com.au>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:45:35 +1000
 
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Just figure that for most photographic work the usefulness of
18-16 and 15mm focal length lenses on a 35mm camera is equal
to one over the focal length squared. In more understandable
terms...Why go so wide when you'll rarely use it? Ed
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For me the formula may be right, but I love using the wides, and the
formula would be even more true for the longer lenses in my hands. I find
the 15 super elmar and 21 on the M [and the 30mm on my blad and does the
Rolleiwide count- probably not] the most important lenes outside the
"normal" documentary range of 28 to 90

Cheers

Alastair Firkin

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