Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Bradshaw: >>>I...go out with an M body and just a 50. I've come to love this focal length so much that I sometimes take different 50s with me (a Summicron, a Summar and a 3.5/50mm Elmar), selecting one according to the effect I want in the final chrome or print. Am I going senile or do others do this?<<< Ted, It sounds perfectly reasonable to me. (Which probably means you're indeed going senile, but let's not go there <g>.) Granted that I go through a mishmash of equipment in testing for articles and so forth, but I'm rather shocked to realize that I currently own nine lenses, and SIX of them are 50mms; plus, I have a 50mm on loan from Nikon with the F100 that's about to go back; plus, my enlarging lens is a 50mm. I have a friend who uses Pentax LX who's threatening to collect every lens they ever made for that mount between 28mm and 50mm. There are, surprisingly, quite a lot. - --Mike