Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/21

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Subject: [Leica] How did 50mm become the "normal" lens for 35mm cameras?
From: lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:58:42 -0400
References: <D404526C.66834%mark@rabinergroup.com> <D4045F8D.66847%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
I believe that Bill C. is correct. It's relative to what you see with your
unaided eye.


-Lew Schwartz

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

>
> The normal camera lens now if you want to define normal as "most used by
> the
> most photogs most often for most stuff" is the wide angle zoom. Which has
> come to be the 18 to 35 zoom. This for photojournalists as well as
> commercial photogs and probably fine art dudes too. It started out being a
> 20 to 35. But time flew.
> I had a 12-24 for my cropped Nikons which translates to that.
> Not sure if I'm going to get a 20mm 1.8 to go with my new 35 1.8 and 50 1.8
> and do some quick back and forth running or go with the zoom.
>
> --
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
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>
>
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