[Leica] 50mm lenses should be compulsory.

[daniel.ridings at muspro.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)]

Yep ... if you're sneaking around, a 50mm is a good one. If you're on a
job and everyone knows there's some geek running around with a camera,
35mm is great.

Daniel


On Wed, 19 May 2004, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Except that....The lens you use often 'controls' where you stand... ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Beddoe, Neil
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 7:32 AM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'; 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] 50mm lenses should be compulsory.
>
>
> " Lenses of different focal lengths do have
> characteristics, based on their focal lengths, other than getting more
> or less in the frame."
>
> I disagree.  Take a picture with a 50mm lens (or even a 21mm lens) and
> crop to the middle of the picture and you've got the same shot you would
> have got from the same spot with a 90mm lens(grain and DOF excluded).
> You are right about my choice of lens though ( at least it made for  a
> provocative subject line).  I'm sure that if my M6 had come with a 35mm
> I'd be raving about that.  The point is that the lens you use is usually
> much less important than where you stand.
>
> Neil
>
>
>
> I am pleased that the 50mm lens worked for you, especially when it was
> your only lens.  However, I submit for your consideration that its being
> a 50mm lens had far less to do with your success than the discipline
> enforced by using only one lens.  It could have been a 35mm, it could
> have been a 90mm, but it is the fact of having only one lens that made
> you work harder at each picture you took.
>
> 	Buzz Hausner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Beddoe, Neil
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:49 AM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: [Leica] 50mm lenses should be compulsory.
>
>
> As everyone knows, you don't alter the viewpoint when you switch to a
> wider or longer lens, you just get more or less in the frame.  In most
> cases, you can do this by walking forwards or backwards and at the same
> time see what changing perspective does to your shot which is much more
> interesting than just optically cropping the photograph.
>
> I like feet but I hate zooms.
>
> Neil
>
>
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