Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 24mm lens. That's been a really popular mainstream focal length over the > years > hasn't it. > > Steve > > On 26 May 2010, at 21:54, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> t's very cool and cute and flat 16mm pancake 2.8 becomes a very capable >> 24mm lens for these NEX cameras. My advanced math skills tells me that >> lens >> would be a 32mm if they were talking about the crazy useless 2x crop >> cameras. > > Actually Steve Yes over the past ten or fifteen yes. A very popular and conservative choice a 24 with a full frame camera. The X1 comes with a LEICA ELMARIT 24 mm f/2.8 ASPH superglue to it so you are shooting with a 35. That's the most widely critized aspect of the camera other than some possible slowness its needs a wider version. Which I'm sure is in the wings. When I started out in the late 70's all my street photographer friends were either using 28's or 24's. Most of them 24 2.8 Nikkor. And that's what I was using. A couple of tight wad ultra conservative types used a 28; that I knew personally. I liked the results my 24mm friends were getting. So I got that as my first serious lens. The main lens now starting out and then on from there is is an ultrawide zoom. Or just ultrawide. For the Leica M in effect that wide tri elmar out now. 16-18-21 A fixed lens; the Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm f/3.8 ASPH would be the one to get to start out with as your first lens if you didn't want the tri elmar wide. Your 24 is when you want reach. Its your long lens. The days of photographers starting out with a 35 are long gone. And certainly a 50. We keep moving closer to our subjects and at the same time wanting more angle of view. And by the way if you are using an 18mm 3.5 with an M8 what do you get? A 24. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner