FrankS
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For me, a 28 and a 50 would cover 80% of my needs.
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Roger Hicks
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If this works for you and your photography, do it. But why get excited about it? If you don't need to change lenses to get the pictures you want, don't change 'em. If you do, do. Using just one camera an one lens is NOT an intellectual or philosophical question. It's just something some people seem to feel they ought to do. Some do it because they are financially overprivileged and feel guilty about having so much kit; others feel guilty about being indecisive; some can't get good pictures with ten lenses, and imagine they'll somehow magically do better with just one; and yet others try to defend the idea because they can't actually afford any more lenses. Those who have been in the last situation, using only a 50mm because it's all they have, seldom fall for this rather self-indulgent idea of how they 'ought' to shoot, once they can afford another lens (or two).
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
froyd
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I find restriction is not only educational (learning how a specific behaves), but also stimulating in an odd way (e.g. figuring out how can emphasize a far away subject, when I'm only armed with a wide lens). Kinda like the restriction of certain meters on poetry.
However, I much better at making a wide lens work than a long one. In tight quarters I find 90s too restrictive, but a 50 I can almost always make work.
However, I much better at making a wide lens work than a long one. In tight quarters I find 90s too restrictive, but a 50 I can almost always make work.
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Go for it and just make it FUN !
I bounce between a 35 & 50
BUT now FINISH the entire Roll with only ONE Lens
I bounce between a 35 & 50
BUT now FINISH the entire Roll with only ONE Lens
zuiko85
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While I like going on a walk with a fixed lens 35mm camera if I have the M4-2 I usually pop the 21 and 90 in a cargo pocket. When I sold cameras back in the 70's (mostly then current SLR's w/50mm lenses) I did recommend the customer not buy another lens until they got familiar with the 50mm. My advice was that if, after a while, they found they kept trying to back up, then get a wide angle. On the other hand if they kept squinting at things in the distance on their prints, trying to figure out what they were, then get a fixed or perhaps a zoom telephoto. Real basic I know but it worked.
Roger Hicks
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Absolutely!
But hey, very few people are interested in what works. They want a theory behind it as well -- even if it's worthless pseudo-theory.
Otherwise, how would politicans get elected, and why would anyone pay the vast majority of economists?
Cheers,
R.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
I keep thinking I should just sell everything and get a 28 Summicron ASPH.
paradoxbox
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50mm 2.0 summicron is a great lens - versatile, fast, sharp and decently compact.
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Coooool Idea ...though I might go the opposite insane route ... the 75 Apo Cron
taskoni
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I want a 28mm lens badly for my upcoming trip to South India, but looking at my account I just realized the chances are very slim of getting one. I might look to rent/borrow one when the time comes :angel:
Roger Hicks
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It's amazingly versatile. It's my second most used focal length after 'standard' (for 30 years 35mm, recently 50mm). But I'd still hate to have ONLY 35, 50 or 75.
Cheers,
R.
gns
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For about 10 years, starting in 1974, I had only a leica and a 35mm lens. In the eighties, I switched to a medium format rangefinder with a fixed lens and used only that for another decade or so. Never a thought of needing or wanting more lenses.
Gary
