Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/02
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> > 35/1.4 is too front-heavy
>
> HUH? It's a very small lense and isn't "front-heavy" at all!
Not as small as 2/35 :-)
> > and you
> > will rarely
> > need that speed IMO
>
> My experience is the extra stop is very useful, as I shoot mostly all
> existing light, low light. It makes the difference between being able to
> get a reasonably sharp shot, and a fuzzy shot. You sometimes can't just use
> faster film, as you also increase grain. I can very nicely shoot with
> either Neopan 1600 or Tri-X at 800, and get very decent shots.
Yes, but Eric wrote that:
1.) He wants to do portraiture (which AFAIK means head shots, in which 35mm will
distort faces)
2.) He has relatively little money to invest
and so I thought that if he will be choosing between 1.4/35 or 2/35 and 2.8/90 combo,
he should buy the latter. But, as I said, it was just MHO :)
> There's also the depth of field issue. If you like "bokeh", then the 1.4
> will give you much better out of focus renderings, since the extra stop will
> throw a significantly larger part of the image out of focus.
Yes, thats true. But then, the beautifullest lens to do it should be
Noctilux or 1.4/75 you recommended :), not a 1.4/35, which, even being
a 1.4 lens, has bigger DOF tham 2/50 (or not? It should have - I don't have a DoF
calc handy)
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