Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, in my awkward way, I was thinking the same way. When I'm doing a job and have a real reason to be somewhere, I'm not so shy and do move in close. Then I need the 35 to keep me from getting too tight of shots. If I'm just walking around on the town, feeling like a fool pointing my camera here and there (kind of shy, when it comes right down to it), I don't have to get physically as close to fill the frame. If I'm really on a roll (and have been drinking) then the 24mm comes in handy :) Daniel On Wed, 19 May 2004, B. D. Colen wrote: > No...I mean that whatever lens you use, you want to fill the frame - so > if you're using a 21, say, unless you're shooting sweeping vistas you > will want to get close in order to fill the frame. If you're using a 35, > you'd step back a bit, and a bit further with a 50, and so on...Granted, > you might want to get really tight and close with any lens...But the > wider the lens, the more you have to move close to the subject to do > that...Similarly, if you want to include more of a scene, the longer the > lens, the further way from the scene you have to stand...so that's why I > said that the lens "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 > Daniel Ridings > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:41 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: RE: [Leica] 50mm lenses should be compulsory. > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > ------ > > This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of > > the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended > > recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, > > dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly > > prohibited. 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