What's _YOUR_ RF Focal Length?

What's _YOUR_ RF Focal Length?

  • Wider

    Votes: 12 1.8%

  • 25

    Votes: 16 2.4%

  • 28

    Votes: 39 6.0%

  • 35

    Votes: 218 33.3%

  • 40

    Votes: 95 14.5%

  • 50

    Votes: 259 39.6%

  • 60

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • 75

    Votes: 6 0.9%

  • 85

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • 90

    Votes: 5 0.8%

  • Longer

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Total voters
    654
I only have a 50/2 for my rangefinder right now but I've never learned to see with it, intuitively, the way I can with a 35. 28 is a very tough FL to shoot, and I'm in awe of folks who use it really well. 24 I actually find much easier than 28. Maybe I should get a 25 Biogon, instead of the 35 that I've set my eye on...
 
I like the CV25 LTM for its focus click stops at 3, 1.5, 1m. No looking at the camera or lens required. Just zone focus & shoot for a general walk-around lens. I don't have any other lenses like that but would appreciate wides with this feature.
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robert wilson
 
I use an RD1 and my regular FL is the 28mm, either CV f2 Ultron or the tiny f3.5 Color-skopar. Recently bought a CV 40mm F1.4 SC Nokton and have been trying that out. Have to say that despite the excellent quality of the lens I just don't feel the FL is right for me and so it's gonna be sold.
 
When I walk down the street, or where ever I am with my camera, I find that when I see something I want to shoot, the 28mm is almost always the best focal length. If I use a 35mm lens I always have to back up to get everything in the frame that I want to include and then the perspective is different than what first attracted my eye.. Of course there are those times when you are a bit farther away and then I use a 35mm. I also use the 21mm for some things. 95% of the time it’s a 28mm for me.
 
Kinda like developers - started with D76, tried a bunch, came back to D76. Started with a 50 kit lens on my first SLR, tried this focal length and that, back to the 50.
 
I initially fell in love with 35mm when I got my summaron 35 f2.8. It allowed me to go close to the subject as it focuses down to 0.7m. Then after I got my cron 50 dr, I could go even closer to my subjects with frame filling shots and that made me a 50 convert. I am searching for a 50mm lens that give a unique signature now.
 
I'm mainly a 28mm guy.
But lately I'm trying to reeducate myself into the 35mm realm with a new CV Notkon 35/1.2.
 
If I have to choose one and only one lens to walk around with, then I guess it would be a 50mm (FOV). However, I've walked around with other focal lengths just fine. Problem is, if I'm shooting something specific, like cars, I want a 35 FOV. I could certainly get by with just a 35mm and 50mm FOV lenses.

(I have an M8 and an M2, which causes me to have to stress FOV above)
 
I used to shoot only with a 35mm lens but then I forced myself to use 50mm for three months. Since then has 50mm been my preferred FL.
 
semilog said:
I only have a 50/2 for my rangefinder right now but I've never learned to see with it, intuitively, the way I can with a 35. 28 is a very tough FL to shoot, and I'm in awe of folks who use it really well. 24 I actually find much easier than 28. Maybe I should get a 25 Biogon, instead of the 35 that I've set my eye on...
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HCB complained that America required a 35mm lens more than he liked. It makes sense if you think about the width roads in old Europe and other places that weren't built around cars.
 
Well lets see, I just purchased a Canon 35mm F-2 off the classified's which means for the first time ever I'll have more then one lense of a particular focal length for a given system/format so I guess that make my RF focal length 35mm.
 
I feel like I have had more success with a 50mm but 35mm just feels right to me, hopefully I get the hang of it and improve.
 
I have a Canon 50/1.8 and a CV 35/2.5 - but after I bought the CV Ultron 28/1.9 last year it's still on my Bessa R.
 
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